Topic: Bitcoin Unit Colour Chart - page 4. (Read 13203 times)
According the source you pointed to, it seems you missed the 'c' in yocto.
I'm color blind. Can't see some of the colors...
I don't like pink. Change the color of your Avatar. (boy, I hope I don't get grief over this post)
This has been a tongue-in-cheek announcement. Now back to the OP.
I like the color scheme idea, but the colors do need to be tweaked a tad.
no names exits for 4,5,7 or 8 places
0.1 deci
0.01 centi
0.001 milli
0.000001 micro (since 1960)
0.000000001 nano (since 1960)
0.000000000001 pico (since 1960)
0.000000000000001 femto (since 1964)
0.000000000000000001 atto (since 1964)
0.000000000000000000001 zepto (since 1991)
0.000000000000000000000001 yocto (since 1991)
http://www.bipm.org/en/CGPM/db/19/4/
xenta, wekta, vendeka, udeka...
http://mrob.com/pub/math/ln-notes1-3.html
EDIT: yoCto
0.000023BTC will become known as $23μ
We'll just write 23μ as no other currency will be so deflated. n$23 will refer to "new dollars" which won't even buy you lint.
Not sure if this scheme will catch on, but those long bitcoin decimals would be a lot more readable if clients and exchanges used some sort of marker every 3 decimal places like a space, a comma or an apostrophe. Simple and unambiguous.
but I don't want to look at a rainbow, and might make BTC look gay and deter some users.
Wait, I don't get it... why would cryptocurrency that appears to be attracted to cryptocurrencies of the same gender be less appealing? How does a cryptocurrency even had a gender? How many acid blotters from Silk Road are you on?
Yes: bitcoins will be worth that much, and people will still use "LOL" in the future. When we all have hovercrafts.
Laughter will be prohibited in the future. So, no.
'LOL' hasn't had anything to do with actual laughing for a very long time.
Yes: bitcoins will be worth that much, and people will still use "LOL" in the future. When we all have hovercrafts.
Laughter will be prohibited in the future. So, no.
I agree with "keep it simple" and predict the following:
We know at a glance that $23k means $23,000.00, not $23.00. So going the other way, 0.000023BTC will become known as $23μ (where "$" is substituted for whatever symbol ends up in common usage for BTC). All this crazy decimal stuff might seem hard now because most people are not used to dealing with the mysterious world on the right hand side of the point -- I know I had to count the zeroes and then double-check -- embarrassing! It will become easy though, as it comes into common usage and people get a "feel" for how much $1μ is worth. People who grow up with bitcoin will have NO problem with this.
Yes: bitcoins will be worth that much, and people will still use "LOL" in the future. When we all have hovercrafts.
We know at a glance that $23k means $23,000.00, not $23.00. So going the other way, 0.000023BTC will become known as $23μ (where "$" is substituted for whatever symbol ends up in common usage for BTC). All this crazy decimal stuff might seem hard now because most people are not used to dealing with the mysterious world on the right hand side of the point -- I know I had to count the zeroes and then double-check -- embarrassing! It will become easy though, as it comes into common usage and people get a "feel" for how much $1μ is worth. People who grow up with bitcoin will have NO problem with this.
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"You paid 23 grand for that gold plated hovercraft?! Hah, damn, all about the bling with you isn't it? You could've got one with twin reactors for less than 18μ! LOL!"
Yes: bitcoins will be worth that much, and people will still use "LOL" in the future. When we all have hovercrafts.
Too complicated.
Keep it simple, sir.
Keep it simple, sir.
e.g for 0.00159265 - that'd just be displayed in blue, perhaps with the blue mBTC logo alongside.
I would have thought if you're writing 0.00159265 BTC that you'd display it in gold, and only display it in blue if you're writing it as 1.59265 mBTC.
the Satoshi (100000000 Satoshi's to the BTC) is the smallest unit available, so not sure what you would do with the piccoins if you had any... You wouldn't be able to create any transactions with them, or render them in the bitcoin client...
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If you can buy something for 1$ and you get a 1000 pieces then you also can't buy a single piece in dollars, in Belgium gas prices are expressed in 0.XXX but you can only pay something like XX.XX
It's not hard to believe that it would happen considering somewhat recent example of how 1GB became equal to 1000MB. Sadly, i anticipate that half of people on this forum don't know the right answer.
1 gigabit is equal to 1000 megabits. The word you are looking for (I think) is Gibibit, which is exactly 1,073,741,824 bits. Rather than forcing a new term on the public, the industry decided to use the term gigabit, since giga is widely known and accepted.
Satoshis is another example. It is a unique word that can describe something exactly, rather than saying 10 nanocoins. I'm not saying we shouldn't use it. But the public already knows nano is very small - one less thing for them to learn to understand bitcoins.
If we want the fastest bitcoin adoption, we should stick to standardized (global) prefixes for divisions of coins. Why make up new units of measurement?
A decicoin is 0.1 btc
A centicoin is 0.01 (aka bitcent)
A millicoin is 0.001
I'm not aware of the metric prefixes for 4,5,7 or 8 places.
A nanocoin is actually the ninth position, not the eight.
deci 0.1A decicoin is 0.1 btc
A centicoin is 0.01 (aka bitcent)
A millicoin is 0.001
I'm not aware of the metric prefixes for 4,5,7 or 8 places.
A nanocoin is actually the ninth position, not the eight.
centi 0.01
milli 0.001
micro 0.000001
nano 0.000000001
pico 0.000000000001
no names exits for 4,5,7 or 8 places
I think Satoshis is great. Using nano would create confusion if used in every day transaction, because minimal BTC unit allowed by protocol is 10 nano BTC. We assume that people would use it properly
20 nBTC
230 nBTC
650 nBTC
but in fact, after a while it would be common to drop the last digit because it would be always the same. And it would look like this
2 nBTC
23 nBTC
65 nBTC
Values like 60 would be source of confusion, is it 600 nBTC or 60 nBTC. It's not hard to believe that it would happen considering somewhat recent example of how 1GB became equal to 1000MB. Sadly, i anticipate that half of people on this forum don't know the right answer.
I don't see anyone claiming otherwise.
I've seen it mentioned several times on this forum. In fact, in the first post of this thread, nano is used to describe the 7th and 8th position. We can't go changing established meanings.
another reason this would be a bad idea would be the fact that naughty people could switch the colours around when they are selling something.
What.. like they couldn't just move the decimal point or add a zero?
Please explain your argument further - it currently makes no sense to me.
If we want the fastest bitcoin adoption, we should stick to standardized (global) prefixes for divisions of coins. Why make up new units of measurement?
Like what.. the satoshi? Because it's part of Bitcoin history and because there are only 8DP in the current implementation.
I didn't make up any new units.
A decicoin is 0.1 btc
A centicoin is 0.01 (aka bitcent)
A millicoin is 0.001
I'm not aware of the metric prefixes for 4,5,7 or 8 places.
A centicoin is 0.01 (aka bitcent)
A millicoin is 0.001
I'm not aware of the metric prefixes for 4,5,7 or 8 places.
yes - the image shows bitcents and millicoins.. So you want to add 'decicoin'?
It's just 10 bitcents.
I've already explained the reasoning for leaving cents and satoshis in along with the existing SI units. I really don't know why you'd want to add another. Does anyone talk of decicoins when dealing with US or AU currencies for example?
A nanocoin is actually the ninth position, not the eight.
I don't see anyone claiming otherwise.
another reason this would be a bad idea would be the fact that naughty people could switch the colours around when they are selling something.
If we want the fastest bitcoin adoption, we should stick to standardized (global) prefixes for divisions of coins. Why make up new units of measurement?
A decicoin is 0.1 btc
A centicoin is 0.01 (aka bitcent)
A millicoin is 0.001
I'm not aware of the metric prefixes for 4,5,7 or 8 places.
A nanocoin is actually the ninth position, not the eight.
A decicoin is 0.1 btc
A centicoin is 0.01 (aka bitcent)
A millicoin is 0.001
I'm not aware of the metric prefixes for 4,5,7 or 8 places.
A nanocoin is actually the ninth position, not the eight.
So you can use colours cryptically in a way only engineers might understand..
Can it really be a surprise to you that colour can also enhance and act as a mnemonic?
Which exchanges are on the up and which down?
http://www.bitcoincharts.com/markets/
( oh look.. red and green side by side too..)
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