POLL: What name would you give to the smallest unit of bitcoin (0.00000001)?

[Cauap]

ittybittytittycoin

[LeFBI]

Benny

[FoxMURDER]

NotMuch

[bcforum]

1 = bitcoin
0.01 = cent
0.00001 = millicent
0.00000001 = microcent

[gtabmx]

Trying to keep in line with actual units of measurements in the metric system, since we;re one decimal place off a nanobit, a good compensation would be "ninobit", in my opinion.

But I agree with some posters above, that the decimal should be shifted all the way to the right and not be used. I thinks the fact that bitcoins can be divided so small makes them seem silly to non bitocin users and can hinder their use in the real world, for average people. The decimal really serves no purpose since at the rate the value of BTC is climbing, in the future very few people will even be able to talk about whole bitcoins...

-Mike

[shata]

What about Bitlet?

+1

[ThatOtherDude]

But I agree with some posters above, that the decimal should be shifted all the way to the right and not be used. I thinks the fact that bitcoins can be divided so small makes them seem silly to non bitocin users and can hinder their use in the real world, for average people. The decimal really serves no purpose since at the rate the value of BTC is climbing, in the future very few people will even be able to talk about whole bitcoins...

-Mike

I second using this method.  Average people are not accustomed to using currency that is divisible to the 8th decimal place.  Such a change would be difficult for people to adapt to.

--Tod

[Windsong]

UberCent

[Hakim1986]

1 = bitcoin
0.01 = cent
0.00001 = millicent
0.00000001 = microcent

This sounds good.

[tool_462]

Pocket Change.

[Zoomer]

But I agree with some posters above, that the decimal should be shifted all the way to the right and not be used. I thinks the fact that bitcoins can be divided so small makes them seem silly to non bitocin users and can hinder their use in the real world, for average people. The decimal really serves no purpose since at the rate the value of BTC is climbing, in the future very few people will even be able to talk about whole bitcoins...

-Mike

I second using this method.  Average people are not accustomed to using currency that is divisible to the 8th decimal place.  Such a change would be difficult for people to adapt to.

--Tod

Agreed. There are many currencies that don't have decimal points now, and they work just fine. See yen, krw, or the Thai Baht (satang is their 'cent' but its so small!).

[mattboston]

Worthless

[david4dev]

Just use SI prefixes!

1BTC = 1 bitcoin
0.1BTC = 1dBTC = 1 decibitcoin
0.01BTC = 1cBTC = 1 centibitcoin
0.001BTC = 1mBTC = 1milibitcoin
0.0001BTC = 1dmBTC = 1 deci-milibitcoin
0.00001BTC = 1cmBTC = 1 centi-milibitcoin
0.000001BTC = 1µBTC = 1 microbitcoin
0.0000001BTC = 1dµBTC = 1 deci-microbitcoin
0.00000001BTC = 1cµBTC = 1 centi-microbitcoin

[ribuck]

Just use SI prefixes!

1BTC = 1 bitcoin
0.1BTC = 1dBTC = 1 decibitcoin
0.01BTC = 1cBTC = 1 centibitcoin...

The prefixes "deci" and "centi" are not SI prefixes. They are leftovers from the pre-SI metric system, and they add more complexity than benefit. So let's keep it simple...

1 BTC = 1 bitcoin
0.001 BTC = 1 mBTC = 1 millibitcoin (nickname "one Millie")
0.000001 BTC = 1 uBTC = 1 microbitcoin (nickname "one Mike")

The base unit of 0.00000001 BTC is the same as 10 nanobitcoins, but I think this will be confusing because we cannot represent 1 nanobitcoin (so how can we have ten of them?). The existing usage seems to work well enough:

0.00000001 BTC (nickname "one Satoshi").

[static]

ShitBit

[noob_jul11]

Uselessbit

[royalecraig]

A NanoBit.

[bonker]

How about a "ringpiece"

[grondilu]

decananobitcoin

deca=10x
nano=10^-9
=>
decanano=10^-8

[PandaMiner]

How about... a Quark?