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A unit of 10-6 BTC is a great idea, but bit is already WIDELY used to measure information.

I propose to call 0.000001 BTC (1/1000000 BTC=10-6 BTC=µBTC) a uni, which is short of Unit, pronounced (you-ni).
Advantages-not used; Uni is similar to unit and sounds vaguely similar, but different, to/from both yen (Japanese) and yuan (Chinese).
Edit: removed comments.

I need to pay for my "uni" at the dry cleaners with "uni"?

just idea's gathered by other thread topics

μbtc (topdown measurement from bitcoin)
hectosat (bottomup measurement from satoshi)

bit - popular
gav (honouring gavin A for 3 years of programming bitcoin just like sat honours the inventor)
alp (honouring alpaca socks, the first legit business to accept bitcoin)

don't wear uni if i got your meaning right.
You can pay for your uni education eventually with a few thou uni, though  ;)
I realise that some cases would not fit, but you cannot hijack a word which has widely use meaning already (such as bit).
Er, you can, but only on the message boards-witness the use of "loose" instead of 'lose".

adding ubit to the poll, thanks.

it seems the consensus is just going with bit or other terms that show a bottom up use. yet there are a few top down fanboys that do not like this and aimlessly make new topic and new polls in an attempt to keep trying to get different results.

insanity is when you keep trying to repeat the same thing over and over, waiting to get a different result.

so why not try using the existant topics and get proper results instead of all these repeated posts with polls asking the same question.

Prior polls did not explain that Bit is already taken.
Surprise-not everybody are aware of this because we mostly use Mb, Gb or TB moniker, but it is Gigabit as in "8-port Gigabit switch" or "2 Terabit hard drive'

If you post polls without proper description, you are basically hijacking the word. Good going.
fan boys of what?

According to my poll, more than 60% of people do not want "bit".  They did not pick as their first or even second choice.  So no, only a very vocal minority wants "bit".  The rest of us are using polls to try to figure out what the consensus will be.

You forgot to include most of the most popular choices: bitcoin, zib, and centoshi.  Your choices are all very similar.

done

Exactly, how could you push so hard for ALREADY used information tech word?  I think that we need to find a good consensus, and it should take some time. The fact that Jeff garzik or Bitpay favors bit (at the moment only!) should matter little or none at all for a wide consensus.

I was a fan of bit, but after all the discussion and reasons not to use bit, ubit is really growing on me.

Advantages of ubit:

-Actually makes sense as a unit of measurement
-Not taken by anything else
-Rolls off the tongue and easy to say

Remember, this will just be the official term. PEOPLE WILL INVENT SLANG NATURALLY AND CALL IT WHAT THEY WISH.

Hell, it may end up being known as the bit. But at least when there is the possibility of confusion (ie buying a 64 bit OS for 32 bits) people can use the official unit (buying a 64 bit OS for 32 ubits).

When you're down at the grocery store buying milk the cashier can use the slang with no confusion (that'll be 2.2 bits).

It isn't too surprising that Bitpay would favor "bit".  I'm glad that they are doing the decent thing and  aren't pushing that particular name too hard.

would you like a five pound of beef or a five pound bank note
only use lead-free paint in the childrens room and try and find the dogs lead to take him for a walk
my kitchen oven uses gas, my american car is fuelled with gas
can you look after my pet mouse while i go to the computer store and replace my keyboard and mouse
i drunk a beer and now im drunk
look at that old bag, carrying her shopping in a bag
that girls bra cup is bigger then my coffee cup
can you look on top of the wardrobe and find me a clean top to wear
the sun light, lightens up my day. i do not feel heavy, i feel light
if you notice any spelling mistakes on this official notice i am posting on this notice board.
my mommy is wrapped in bandages, just like a mommy
listening to a music jam while eating strawberry jam
cell phones will one day be the size of single cell organisms
can you sculpt me 2 stone birds with their wings out and put one in the left and one in the right wings of my mansion
your right, my right arm is longer then my left
can i trust you to go to the bank and open a trust fund for our kid
tomorrows outlook is good, i do not mean a microsoft email update
my tablet PC reminds me when is should take my tablets
your a knob, now let go of my door knob
im going to wage war on my boss because he has not paid me my wage
that nail gun shot a nail straight through the nail in my finger
baby lets go to bed so we can spoon together.. hang on love we ran out of spoons, how about a knife
i blew my lid today as i couldnt eat any peanut butter. that dam peanut butter lid was stuck
can you tell me how much that can of pepsi is
dont bottle up your motions due to that bottleneck on the highway, drink a bottle of water
you girl are smoking hott, i love to watch a girl while she is smoking
a pre-med doctor sits in a field hypothesizing which medical field to specialize in
at the DIY store i asked for a socket, he asked me socket wrench or electrical plug socket
there are some bgs in my code, but not as much as their are bed bugs in my bed
will you light my cigarette with that lighter that lights up using led lights
this bag of chips taste nice.... No john don't eat my ASIC mining chips
the NSA screens all visitors but i was more impressed by their 4k hi-def LED screens
the doctor found tar on my lungs, i told him to unzip the tar file and extract it
your mouth is larger then the mouth of the Mississippi river
old mcdonald had a farm, and a mcdonald bigmac for his lunch
im growing grass on my property, not weed the standard short gren grass that covers every garden and field
i want to buy an apple.. a golden delicious not a G5

i found a bit of someones tooth in sandwich when i bitdown on it.

the last sentance shows bit is in use.. now look at the first sentance.. and tell me the british government care about double meanings

Why not stick to µBTC/uBTC as it has been commonly used ever since?

Anyways my vote is µBTC.

Your poll is biased, you know that?

µBTC is a topdown measurement, and not future-proofing for common conversations of bitcoin

I had never seen a pound note in my life, don't care about the british gov (we declared independence in 1776) and I don't know what the sentance is either.
Care to elaborate?

how? It has 9 entries now.

done

i know your joking but anyways

pound:
10 pound note
10 pound of beef
i will pound you into the ground
a pound is where stray dogs go to die
do you hear that pounding sound

several meanings for pound yet one government just doesnt care, now then back to the point

i bit my lip
8 bits to a byte
there's a bit of dirt on my shoe
100 satoshi's to a bit

and as for the symbol to all the fanboys that like unicode
ᵬ
Unicode number: U+1D6C
HTML-code: ᵬ

oh and by the way, your poll.. a centoshi... cen is 0.01, you might want to try hectoshi

Why can't we keep the measurements from here?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Units

I'm pretty sure every unit of Bitcoin is taken.

We are discussing a simpler name for microbitcoin, naturally, with an underlying thought (that I agree with) that it is easier to measure monetary units in integers rather than decimals with a few zeroes beforehand. You don't calls cents centidollar.

If “centidollars” are called “cents”, then maybe “microbitcoins” could be “micros”.

it is spelled micro Bitcoin, and most understand micro is milionth, so why the need for something better  ???

what is a microdollar? This poll is to establish possible alternatives to using micro ( a single word, not a derivative).

That's a fantasy, not reality.  The vast majority of people in the world do not understand SI prefixes.  Most people are familiar with kilo, centi, and milli.  Very few people know what the others mean.

How could anyone ever tell the difference? (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/context)

Also, this. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/run)

For what it's worth (pun intended), I was just at the coffee shop and I heard someone say "itsy bitsy" and the bitsy "bit-c" stuck in my brain. And then I read this thread.

Personally I like ubit. Simple and rolls off the tongue nicely.

[X] micros or mics

just like dollar <-> cents ("cent" just means 1/100, it isn't "centdollar")

bitcoin <-> micros (1 millionth)

There can also be intermediary "millies" (1 thousandth of a bitcoin)

I believe if they're officially called millibitcoins and microbitcoins, "millies" and "micros" will become colloquially common anyway in every-day street language.

That (the last part) is just your opinion.

µBTC has worked quite well so far. I don't get what's the problem with it? Everyone that went to school internationally knows what the µ stands for when used in units. It actually is the canonical choice for naming the unit of the millionth fraction of anything.

I think people trying to change it just want to be important. Like: "Hey remember when I started a movement to change the name of a unit of a virtual currency back in the day? No? But why not? It was super important!"

"bit", because:

General public is *familiar* with the term "bits", but they don't actually know what it means. (w.r.t. bits/bytes etc) So it's a perfect computery sounding term they can already say and are familiar with it. It's short and snappy and sounds futuristic/techy.

micro/nano BTC or whatever will still be used too by aficionados.

Every reasonably smart and techie person who went to school internationally knows what µ stands for.

The general public do not. Go ask ten people on the street. (Someone should actually do that!) Some people will give vague answers (is it a thousandth? A millionth?), while others won't have any idea at all.

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Really, we should be calling this credits, or bitcredits, to fit in with science fiction IMO ;D

I really want to pay for something with credits so bad.

either remove the positive/negative of your liked/disliked choices or add it for all choices.

The bitcoin community is too full with retards who think bit is a good name for microbits.

There's a lot of better options in the poll, even ubit would be fine.

satoshi is small enough , why we need a new unit?
mBtc is suitable to mark the price. So I think mBtc should
attracts more sights than such a new unit.

But we do call decibels decibels. Many people don't realise the "deci" prefix means that a decibel is 1/10th of a bel (and a bel is named for Alexander Graham Bell), but that doesn't matter.

I removed two comments, but regarding bit, it is a statement of the fact, so it stays.
Edit: added other meaning to bitcoin choice.

so then it is a poll to persuade people to choose something other than bit, not a poll to know general opinion.[I am sure there are 'statements of fact' regarding other options but it seems you dont care ]

I don't think that it really matters (comments or no comments), but I removed them. Don't be so...

Missed a popular option: mic or mike

Yep.
So just leave it alone and it will work out well.

"ubit" sounds simple and different. It could become the next big thing... or not. We'll have to see. Bit is unacceptable in my opinion.