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Update: The amount of BTC that was stolen was calculated by Nicholas Weaver @NCWeaver – Computer Security Researcher, to be around: 4474.266369160003BTC that are with the value of about $2.7 Million.

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That should be 4474.26636916 . . . who is doing BTC calculations with floats?

Bitcoin can be divided down to Satoshi's (0.00000001) an are often traded in fraction. Since they're worth $500+ at the moment, it makes a lot of sense.

I was talking about the trailing decimals after the hundred-millionths place. It's an obvious sign that someone was doing calculations on them as floats and not integers (and dividing by 100,000,000 for display purposes).

Yes Nicholas Weaver made a bit of a mistake there.

That's a lot of significant figures for a round number...

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