how long till 1mBTC = 1USD?

[teukon]

That's ridiculous. Clearly Bitcoins are made out of bits&bytes and therefore should be scaled in steps with base 2.
And because some people don't like that, we will use both. Normal metric and base 2 at the same time.
So that 1 Bitcoin = 1000mB, but also = 1024 mB.

I expect those that like binary for the bits&bytes parallel would use the satoshi as their base unit for it's indivisability; bits cannot be truly subdivided.  After all 1 bitcoin is nothing more that 100 million satoshi, an amount selected to give users a more intuitively appealing base unit.  Indeed, amounts stored in the blockchain are stored as integers with 1 being 0.00000001 BTC = 1 satoshi.

The current rate is 1.384 USD / MiSAT, or 0.7225 MiSAT / USD if you prefer.
(where MiSAT ("mebisat") is mebi-satoshi = 1024^2 satoshi)

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[jubalix]

That's ridiculous. Clearly Bitcoins are made out of bits&bytes and therefore should be scaled in steps with base 2.
And because some people don't like that, we will use both. Normal metric and base 2 at the same time.
So that 1 Bitcoin = 1000mB, but also = 1024 mB.

I expect those that like binary for the bits&bytes parallel would use the satoshi as their base unit for it's indivisability; bits cannot be truly subdivided.  After all 1 bitcoin is nothing more that 100 million satoshi, an amount selected to give users a more intuitively appealing base unit.  Indeed, amounts stored in the blockchain are stored as integers with 1 being 0.00000001 BTC = 1 satoshi.

The current rate is 1.384 USD / MiSAT, or 0.7225 MiSAT / USD if you prefer.
(where MiSAT ("mebisat") is mebi-satoshi = 1024^2 satoshi)

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[massivebitman]

Maybe we should split the bitcoins in inches or feet? Hardly anyone in the world is using the metric system, right...?

I agree, the metric system is way too confusing. Lets use degrees instead of feet though. We can then split a bitcoin into 360 separate units called degree bitcoins, or dBTC. Then dBTC can each be split into 60 minutes per degree and 60 seconds per minute.

That is way easier than this metric system fad.

Guys... why do we need to reinvent the wheel??

It's simple! This stuff has been worked out.

Answer: We adopt the same system as the English pounds shillings and pennies.

Adopt a system designed for currency, duh!!!

1 bitPound = 20 bitShillings
1 bitShilling = 12bitPennies
1 bitPenny = 2halfpennies or 4bitFarthings

2 bitfarthings = 1 bithalfpenny
2 bithalfpence = 1 bitpenny (1d)
3 bitpence = 1 bitthruppence (3d)
6 bitpence = 1 bitsixpence (a 'tanner') (6d)
12 bitpence = 1 bitshilling (a bob) (1s)
2 bitshillings = 1 bitflorin ( a 'two bob bit') (2s)
2 bitshillings and 6 bitpence = 1 half bitcrown (2s 6d)
5 bitshillings = 1 bitCrown (5s)

Couldn't be simpler... why all this confusing metric stuff???

At these rates we're near 1bitpenny = 1USD.  A perfect conversion rate.

[bitleif]

That's ridiculous. Clearly Bitcoins are made out of bits&bytes and therefore should be scaled in steps with base 2.
And because some people don't like that, we will use both. Normal metric and base 2 at the same time.
So that 1 Bitcoin = 1000mB, but also = 1024 mB.

Clearly we should be using multiples of 16 to denote smaller values:

1 BTC  = 1 BTC
1 aBTC  = 1/16 BTC = 0.0625 BTC
1 bBTC  = 1/256 BTC = 0.00390625 BTC
1 cBTC  = 1/4096 BTC  etc

Then we can give all prices in hexadecimal:
0x10 cBTC = 1 bBTC
0x100 bBTC = 1 BTC

The price of a cheeseburger is about 0x1f cBTC.

[Birdy]

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The price of a cheeseburger is about 0x1f cBTC.

You have a point there,
but we also should consider changing the amount for weekends, because usually there is a smaller amount of cash-flow.
So on a weekend one BTC should be less cBTC to stabilze the cash-flow charts.

[RodeoX]

So there's a lot of confusion amongst the current Bitcoin enthusiasts.

I have seen "mBTC" used for years now. That has become a very familiar unit and does not seem confusing to me.

[Its About Sharing]

When mBTC (.001) = $1 then the SH*T is going to hit the fan. Can you guys imagine that? But, it is just a 10 billion dollar market cap, really not much. Call me when we hit 1 trillion... (Can someone do the math on that one...?)

If the banking crisis continue, and it looks like it will, it can happen this year. Understand, once we start going up there in price (say over the previous high or there abouts), the moves will be violent. 10%-20% moves in a day until we reach some type of consensus price are to be expected. And who knows when that will be considering the state of things.

I think we have no choice but to go to mBTC. As many have mentioned there is a psychological barrier to entry when "stocks" go above a certain price (which is why they split, at least in part) and with bitcoin we have the decimal places and following naming convention to take care of that. When you only have 11 million current outstanding shares, oh boy...

It's all about sharing

Not a bad call, halfway there. 

[Wilhelm]

Why not work from the bottom up

1000 satoshi
100000 satoshi
A million satoshi
A thousand satoshi
Etc.

Sounds good and sounds like more money and once we need to divide more we add in another bitcoin founding father.