diff --git a/rai/core/core.cpp b/rai/core/core.cpp
index fa1f266b..d5ed9a21 100644
--- a/rai/core/core.cpp
+++ b/rai/core/core.cpp
@@ -823,8 +823,7 @@ processor (*this),
 transactions (*this),
 peers (network.endpoint ()),
 service (processor_a),
-//scale ("1000000000000000000000000000") // 10 ^ 27
-scale ("1")
+scale ("100000000000000000000")
 {
     if (!init_a.error ())
     {
diff --git a/rai/test/client.cpp b/rai/test/client.cpp
index 2963f083..eb99b6f3 100644
--- a/rai/test/client.cpp
+++ b/rai/test/client.cpp
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ TEST (client, scaling)
 TEST (client, scale_num)
 {
     rai::system system (24000, 1);
-    rai::uint128_t num ("0xf0000000000000000000000000000000");
+    rai::uint128_t num ("100000000000000000000000000000000000000");
     auto down (system.clients [0]->scale_down (num));
     auto up (system.clients [0]->scale_up (down));
     ASSERT_EQ (num, up);