On 03/13/2014 10:32 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Mike Hearn <m...@plan99.net> wrote: >> BitPay should use mBTC as well. Unless you can point to any major wallets, >> exchanges or price watching sites that use uBTC by default? >> >> I think it is highly optimistic to assume we'll need another 1000x shift any >> time soon. By now Bitcoin isn't obscure anymore. Lots of people have heard > Such hand-wavy, data-free logic is precisely why community > coordination is preferred to random apps making random decisions in > this manner. > > mBTC is problematic because you do not need 1000x shift in value to > produce annoyances for major accounting packages that are hard-limited > to two decimal places. Further, spreadsheets hide information if > formatting is configured naively -- that is, if formatting is > configured for bitcoin the way it is configured for other currencies. > > Fundamentally, more than two decimal places tends to violate the > Principle Of Least Astonishment with many humans, and as a result, > popular software systems have been written with that assumption. >
I whole-heartedly agree with Jeff. micro-BTC was the way to go to end user confusion and make things easier for software systems which are designed to handle money (i.e. two decimal places). I also echo the sentiment about people being able to handle large numbers well. We've been working with Marty Zigman who's creating a Bitcoin plugin for NetSuite accounting platform, and he was already forced to switch micro-BTC long ago for exactly the reasons described above. I think the system will track up to 3 decimal places without causing all sorts of heartache and automatic rounding. Of course, as Mike said, this ship may have already sailed, but if there's any way to revisit this, I'm there. We're just about to do another Armory release and could support this very easily. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
