Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Utilization of bits denomination

An alternative to "training" users to understand SI prefixes could be to make 100 satoshi = 1 mu, spelling out the Greek letter. Although the Units page on the wiki has been brought up to argue against naming 10,000 satoshi = 1 finney, I would like to support thi

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Utilization of bits denomination

Reposting /u/BashCo's post on reddit here, for visibility: ---8<--- > Before anyone says 'bits' are too confusing because it's a computer science term, here's a list of homonyms [https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/List_of_true_homonyms] that

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Utilization of bits denomination

On 13 December 2017 at 22:36, David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev wrote: > - Microbitcoins is not a homonym for any other word in English (and > probably not in any other language), whereas "bit" and "bits" have > more than a dozen homonyms in English---some of which are quite common > in gener

Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP Proposal: Utilization of bits denomination

As much as I love SI standards, "trains users to understand SI prefixes, allowing them to easily migrate from one prefix to the next" seems unrealistic. The metric system is about to have its 220th birthday and people in the US still don't use it. It makes sense to embrace terms that stick. "bit