It’s an interesting point. It’s messy, but so is floating point money.
The actual budget of a request basket should never be anything but a whole coin amount. It’s not TOO surprising if the data isn’t reported or stored in the same format as other currency values, here.
Simoyd or someone who has spent some time analyzing the game could determine and/or confirm this. I wasn’t thinking of this as a root cause but, it’s addressable without the missing web developer.
It seems it was great for just about long enough to build some trust, but at the moment that trust and reliance are actively harming the economy.
Perhaps at some point simoyd will take it on himself to fix it.