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BTC1 or 1BTC or 1 BTC? (not sure if the BTC code will work in the title of this thread, hence...)

I desire to use the proper form, hence the question.

Thank you in advance.

~Bruno K~

EDIT: It didn't work in the title, so my next question is why not?

I always use 123.45BTC

If we use the same bank convention used for the fiat currency in Europe it has to be write BTC 1 or BTC1 (with space in first case and without in second)

The two above look good, but I guess I'm looking for a consensus like when we worked together to get BTC as the official (so to speak) symbol. Now we all need to be on the same page as to how to use it. Seems odd, but we're looking at three different ways to use BTC with 33% using one way, 33% another, and 33% the other. (approximately)

~Bruno K~

i'd say BTC1 or 1 BTC, to mimic $1 or 1 AUD

BTC1 for the whole or subunit, like $1, or $0.xxxxxxxx. If you just want to speak in cents, there could be a bitcent version of ¢ (1/100), except BTC goes to the 8th decimal place...

At the moment, I'm just concerned about the proper usage of the Bitcoin symbol BTC and not BTC.


Is there a consensus that this is, or should be, the proper usage?

~Bruno K~

I always use 50 BTC. This is most clear. 50BTC looks bad, and BTC50 isn't even understandable, because BTC is a unit. You don't say USD50, you say 50 USD.

nah, BTC is a symbol, just like $ is a symbol. you don't say 50 $

Symbols (BTC) go first, quasi-acronyms/abbreviations (BTC) go after.

50 $ is seen in some places around where I live, though $50 is far more common. Even more common is the omission of the $ completely. The reason for that is because $ is the peso sign, used to indicate that "the following number represents a currency" just like 'No.' represents "the following number represents an order" or "-" represents "the following number represents a negative quantity". The peso sign itself, when it proceeds a quantity, is not a unit; while 50 USD is unambiguous, $50 can refer to many different national currencies based on a peso or a dollar.

BTC does not connote any of those meanings, rather, BTC is a unit. For example, 50 kg, 50 €, 50 °C are all written with quantity preceding unit. BTC50 looks bad and implies ambiguity.

oh, i thought €50 was more common.

http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm#position

If the Bitcoin symbol is read or pronounced as "BEE-TEE-SEE" or "Bitcoins", then "BTC 50" doesn't make any sense, as saying "send me BTC 50" would sound like yoda-speak.

If you're an American, when you type $50 do you read it as United States Dollars 50, or 50 dollars? I read it as 50 dollars. Same logic with BTC50. 50 bitcoins, not bitcoins 50.

Often when I write there is no chance of misunderstanding and I leave it off. Eventually I just won't walk to people who might think I meant something else <snicker>

When I write it it's 7BTC. Though now that I think about it I don't know why I smoosh them, 7 BTC it is.

Yeah if you don't use the symbol converter as described in the OP, definitely do number BTC instead of BTC number.