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Title: The writers at Almost Human liked the term 'bits' too! Post by: chakra74 on May 07, 2014, 02:47:33 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHOFR5yXKYk
In this video you'll see a man hold his sign up twice with the term 10 bits written on it to refer to a small denomination of bitcoins. Title: Re: The writers at Almost Human liked the term 'bits' too! Post by: franky1 on May 07, 2014, 03:23:47 PM so now its official 100sat is a bit
Title: Re: The writers at Almost Human liked the term 'bits' too! Post by: chakra74 on May 07, 2014, 04:03:37 PM When you consider the psychology of the set design for this scene you begin to realize the brilliance of the term 'bit'. If this sign had 10 µbit or µbtc or almost any other suggested alternative the audience would have been confused.
For the common man though, everyone instantly understands what the sign means. Just as someone might say, “Can I have a bit of your lunch?”. They intimately understand that you're not asking for their whole lunch, but just a small part of it. The average non technical person will also associate the term bit with something to do with computers. Most people only have a vague understanding of bits and bytes and to them it's just computer lingo. So the marriage of a small part of something and the association of it having to do with computers makes it the perfect fit for a piece of bitcoin. Most of the people in these forums are intimately familiar with technology and I don't think they understand the basic perspective the average person has when it comes to technology and the term bit. Title: Re: The writers at Almost Human liked the term 'bits' too! Post by: pening on May 07, 2014, 06:34:53 PM You took that from the scene? What you should be noting is how, when asking how much money was on the "bitcoin", it was read back in $ (and a very substantial nominal amount too). Methinks you wildly overestimate what the writer was about in this scene.
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