Topic: A new unit=1/1000000BTC. Bit is already taken, how to call a new unit/symbol? (Read 2239 times)
May 05, 2014, 09:02:49 PM
"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.
May 05, 2014, 06:37:00 PM
[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.
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.
Yep.
So just leave it alone and it will work out well.
May 05, 2014, 06:33:06 PM
Missed a popular option: mic or mike
May 05, 2014, 02:31:16 PM
Your poll is biased, you know that?
either remove the positive/negative of your liked/disliked choices or add it for all choices.
I removed two comments, but regarding bit, it is a statement of the fact, so it stays.
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...
May 05, 2014, 02:25:19 PM
Your poll is biased, you know that?
either remove the positive/negative of your liked/disliked choices or add it for all choices.
I removed two comments, but regarding bit, it is a statement of the fact, so it stays.
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 ]
May 05, 2014, 01:29:07 PM
Your poll is biased, you know that?
either remove the positive/negative of your liked/disliked choices or add it for all choices.
I removed two comments, but regarding bit, it is a statement of the fact, so it stays.
Edit: added other meaning to bitcoin choice.
May 05, 2014, 08:17:25 AM
You don't calls cents centidollar.
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. 
May 05, 2014, 06:10:32 AM
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.
mBtc is suitable to mark the price. So I think mBtc should
attracts more sights than such a new unit.
May 05, 2014, 05:44:14 AM
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.
There's a lot of better options in the poll, even ubit would be fine.
May 05, 2014, 05:43:04 AM
Your poll is biased, you know that?
either remove the positive/negative of your liked/disliked choices or add it for all choices.
May 05, 2014, 05:33:12 AM
"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.
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
I really want to pay for something with credits so bad.
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.
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Everyone that went to school internationally knows what the µ stands for when used in units
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
I really want to pay for something with credits so bad.
May 05, 2014, 05:27:09 AM
Why not stick to µBTC/uBTC as it has been commonly used ever since?
Anyways my vote is µBTC.
Anyways my vote is µBTC.
µBTC is a topdown measurement, and not future-proofing for common conversations of bitcoin
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!"
May 05, 2014, 05:12:07 AM
[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.
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.
May 05, 2014, 04:15:54 AM
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.
Personally I like ubit. Simple and rolls off the tongue nicely.
May 04, 2014, 09:39:58 PM
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Buck (bŭk), Pearl Sydenstricker 1892-1973.
American writer whose life as a missionary in China lent a vivid immediacy to her novels, including The Good Earth (1931). She won the 1938 Nobel Prize for literature.
buck 1 (bŭk)
n.
1.
a. The adult male of some animals, such as the deer, antelope, or rabbit.
b. Antelope considered as a group: a herd of buck.
2.
a. A robust or high-spirited young man.
b. A fop.
3. Offensive A Native American or Black man.
4. An act or instance of bucking: a horse that unseated its rider on the first buck.
5.
a. Buckskin.
b. bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.
v. bucked, buck·ing, bucks
v.intr.
1. To leap upward arching the back: The horse bucked in fright.
2. To charge with the head lowered; butt.
3. To make sudden jerky movements; jolt: The motor bucked and lurched before it finally ran smoothly.
4. To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.
5. Informal To strive with determination: bucking for a promotion.
v.tr.
1. To throw or toss by bucking: buck off a rider; bucked the packsaddle off its back.
2. To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against: "Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the country, is bucking the trend" (American Demographics).
3. Football To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.
4. Archaic To butt against with the head.
adj.
Of the lowest rank in a specified military category: a buck private; a buck sergeant.
Phrasal Verb:
buck up
To summon one's courage or spirits; hearten: My friends tried to buck me up after I lost the contest.
[Middle English bukke, from Old English buc, male deer, and bucca, male goat.]
buck′er n.
buck 2 (bŭk)
n.
1. A sawhorse or sawbuck.
2. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
[Alteration (influenced by buck) of Dutch bok, male goat, trestle, from Middle Dutch boc.]
buck 3 (bŭk)
n. Informal
1. A dollar.
2. An amount of money: working overtime to make an extra buck
American writer whose life as a missionary in China lent a vivid immediacy to her novels, including The Good Earth (1931). She won the 1938 Nobel Prize for literature.
buck 1 (bŭk)
n.
1.
a. The adult male of some animals, such as the deer, antelope, or rabbit.
b. Antelope considered as a group: a herd of buck.
2.
a. A robust or high-spirited young man.
b. A fop.
3. Offensive A Native American or Black man.
4. An act or instance of bucking: a horse that unseated its rider on the first buck.
5.
a. Buckskin.
b. bucks Buckskin breeches or shoes.
v. bucked, buck·ing, bucks
v.intr.
1. To leap upward arching the back: The horse bucked in fright.
2. To charge with the head lowered; butt.
3. To make sudden jerky movements; jolt: The motor bucked and lurched before it finally ran smoothly.
4. To resist stubbornly and obstinately; balk.
5. Informal To strive with determination: bucking for a promotion.
v.tr.
1. To throw or toss by bucking: buck off a rider; bucked the packsaddle off its back.
2. To oppose directly and stubbornly; go against: "Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the country, is bucking the trend" (American Demographics).
3. Football To charge into (an opponent's line) carrying the ball.
4. Archaic To butt against with the head.
adj.
Of the lowest rank in a specified military category: a buck private; a buck sergeant.
Phrasal Verb:
buck up
To summon one's courage or spirits; hearten: My friends tried to buck me up after I lost the contest.
[Middle English bukke, from Old English buc, male deer, and bucca, male goat.]
buck′er n.
buck 2 (bŭk)
n.
1. A sawhorse or sawbuck.
2. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
[Alteration (influenced by buck) of Dutch bok, male goat, trestle, from Middle Dutch boc.]
buck 3 (bŭk)
n. Informal
1. A dollar.
2. An amount of money: working overtime to make an extra buck
How could anyone ever tell the difference?
Also, this.
May 04, 2014, 06:50:45 PM
and most understand micro is milionth
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.
May 04, 2014, 06:26:37 PM
Why not stick to µBTC/uBTC as it has been commonly used ever since?
Anyways my vote is µBTC.
Anyways my vote is µBTC.
µBTC is a topdown measurement, and not future-proofing for common conversations of bitcoin
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).
May 04, 2014, 05:49:05 PM
Why not stick to µBTC/uBTC as it has been commonly used ever since?
Anyways my vote is µBTC.
Anyways my vote is µBTC.
µBTC is a topdown measurement, and not future-proofing for common conversations of bitcoin
it is spelled micro Bitcoin, and most understand micro is milionth, so why the need for something better
May 04, 2014, 05:43:05 PM
You don't calls cents centidollar.
If “centidollars” are called “cents”, then maybe “microbitcoins” could be “micros”. May 04, 2014, 05:01:34 PM
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.
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.
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