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We've discussed this before, but there never has been a consensus as to how to handle future denominations of Bitcoin for purchases. Someday Bitcoin will be distributed amongst a wide user base and purchases will be approaching the nano BTC level. The problem is innumeracy. Most Americans don't understand the concept of metric prefixes. They are conditioned to corporatized names and logos from infancy. Shall we begin to popularize a naming convention for purchases using something analogous to trading commodities i.e. Gold Bitcoin, Silver Bitcoin, etc. for every fractional order of magnitude? Or will we end up using milliardth, billionth, or nano to mean Bitcoin to -9 orders of magnitude?
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March 27, 2013, 12:51:47 PM |
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Why do you think you can solve this now? If people really have a hard time with milli, micro, nano, why don't you just wait to see what they actually do use?
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17Np17BSrpnHCZ2pgtiMNnhjnsWJ2TMqq8 I routinely ignore posters with paid advertising in their sigs. You should too.
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March 27, 2013, 12:58:18 PM |
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mBTC. Too easy.
"I can't believe a batch3 Avalon is almost 74,000 mBTC".
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March 27, 2013, 01:02:26 PM |
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BTM (mBTC) has rapidly developed into a de-facto standard in online gaming. If bitcoin market value continues on its present trend much longer it will be the norm full stop. I have no idea what "commoners" will call BTM, µBTC and satoshi, if it comes to that. You never know, they might call them BTM or mBTC, µBTC and satoshi! ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Or maybe peeps could get used to the floating point, e.g. "the basic payout on Daily Bitcoins is BTC0,00001", "I like to tip forum posters BTC0,005", and so on. But already even within the Bitcoin nerd circles, I've seen peeps confuse BTC0,005 with BTC0,0005 with BTC0,00005! So who knows? ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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March 27, 2013, 01:03:36 PM Last edit: March 27, 2013, 01:39:32 PM by bitcoinnix |
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We already have the satoshi for a small increment - I propose the next named small increment be somehow related to Hal Finney: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0Eg: (1 BTC = 100,000,000 Satoshi); (1 BTC = 1,000,000 Finneys)
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March 27, 2013, 01:06:36 PM |
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Hal Finney's a legend, so that sounds good to me!
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March 27, 2013, 01:08:37 PM |
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Most Americans don't understand the concept of metric prefixes Then they better start using their brain and learn that. Or stop using bitcoin because if they can't understand what milli or micro means, they clearly are unable to understand how to use bitcoins ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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March 27, 2013, 01:09:46 PM |
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BTM (mBTC) has rapidly developed into a de-facto standard in online gaming. If bitcoin market value continues on its present trend much longer it will be the norm full stop. I have no idea what "commoners" will call BTM, µBTC and satoshi, if it comes to that. You never know, they might call them BTM or mBTC, µBTC and satoshi! ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Or maybe peeps could get used to the floating point, e.g. "the basic payout on Daily Bitcoins is BTC0,00001", "I like to tip forum posters BTC0,005", and so on. But already even within the Bitcoin nerd circles, I've seen peeps confuse BTC0,005 with BTC0,0005 with BTC0,00005! So who knows? ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Having lived through the process in reverse (i.e. a hyperinflationary currency, where you keep adding zeroes, then the government keeps chopping them off), I can tell you the community will quickly revert to nicknames for each denomination. As you said, BTM seems to be gaining traction. uBTC might catch on too. And I think the satoshi is, by now, fairly well established. Hopefully, we'll stay away from floating points... they suck, and they're a permanent reminder we are primates with only ten extensions on our hands ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif)
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March 27, 2013, 01:22:58 PM |
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Having lived through the process in reverse (i.e. a hyperinflationary currency, where you keep adding zeroes, then the government keeps chopping them off), I can tell you the community will quickly revert to nicknames for each denomination. Wow! Zim? ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Hopefully, we'll stay away from floating points... they suck, and they're a permanent reminder we are primates with only ten extensions on our hands ![Cheesy](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cheesy.gif) Today's maths/bitcoin class. Teacher comes in and says "repeat after me: point double zero five, point triple zero five, point quadruple zero five - read the numbers backwards". ![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
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March 27, 2013, 01:52:27 PM Last edit: March 27, 2013, 04:35:49 PM by Troll Toll |
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Screw stupid 'muricans, make them learn the metric system.
Source: I am an engineer in america that understands both the metric system and the stupidity of everyone around me IRL.
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March 27, 2013, 03:24:39 PM Last edit: April 02, 2013, 04:22:43 PM by Peter Lambert |
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Most Americans don't understand the concept of metric prefixes.
Bullshit. Every American learns about metric prefixes in school. We know the difference between a milliliter and a liter, and the difference between a millimeter (about 25 to an inch), a meter (about a yard) and a kilometer (about half a mile). We use M and B and T when talking about large amounts of money (million and billion and trillions), while they are not the same as the metric abbreviations it still works the same. We also state memory amounts for computers using a sort of modified metric prefixing system. Just use millibits, mB, and people will get used to it.
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March 27, 2013, 04:08:59 PM |
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I will be defaulting to BTM (or mBTC) when I get my website up and running.
It will be easier to say a user has 100 BTM instead of .1 BTC.
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March 28, 2013, 01:29:29 AM |
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Since a lot of people have their client set to show xxx.xx mBTC, I move to make 0.01 mBTC (aka, the millibitcent, 10^-5 BTC, 10 uBTC, etc) the Finney. So at $100 per BTC, a Fin will be worth 0.1 pennies. At $1,000, a penny, at $10,000, a dime. The Finney (thus defined) has a reasonable token amount associated with it over a broad range of exchange rates.
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March 28, 2013, 02:28:36 AM |
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I'm sure people will figure out their own names for these denominations. I'm in favor of calling mBTC millies, and I'm certain anyone who hears me say "I'll take this for a hundred millies" will probably get my message ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) That is, if they're familiar with Bitcoin. Otherwise I'm going to get some funny stares no matter what I call it.
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March 28, 2013, 02:30:29 AM |
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And "millie" is certainly easier to say than "bee-tee-em", much as the latter's grown on me. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif)
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March 28, 2013, 02:46:48 AM |
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And "millie" is certainly easier to say than "bee-tee-em", much as the latter's grown on me. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I don't get the logic for BTM. mBTC sounds way simpeler to me.
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March 28, 2013, 07:40:06 AM |
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And "millie" is certainly easier to say than "bee-tee-em", much as the latter's grown on me. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I don't get the logic for BTM. mBTC sounds way simpeler to me. Bitmill sounds easier to say IMO.
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March 28, 2013, 08:31:52 AM |
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March 28, 2013, 01:22:51 PM |
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And "millie" is certainly easier to say than "bee-tee-em", much as the latter's grown on me. ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I don't get the logic for BTM. mBTC sounds way simpeler to me. BTM is 3 letters mBTC is 4. Bitmill is easy to say, and many sites already incorporate it - it also is precisely the same thing but less scary for non-metric familiar users. IMHO the bitmill/BTM is here to stay
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