Denominating Bitcoin amounts - page 2.

Peter Lambert

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Quote from: cbeast on March 27, 2013, 07:41:22 AM

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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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.

EDIT: typo

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Quote from: Piper67 on March 27, 2013, 08:09:46 AM

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?

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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

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

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Introducing XBT (= 100 satoshi) is the way to go. This enables integration with mainstream financial systems.

See reasoning and votes in:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/vote-iso-currency-code-bringing-bitcoin-into-the-mainstream-financial-markets-149150

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Quote from: nobbynobbynoob on March 27, 2013, 08:02:26 AM

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!

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?

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

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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

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Hal Finney's a legend, so that sounds good to me!

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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://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-and-me-hal-finney-155054

Eg: (1 BTC = 100,000,000 Satoshi); (1 BTC = 1,000,000 Finneys)

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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!

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?

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mBTC. Too easy.

"I can't believe a batch3 Avalon is almost 74,000 mBTC".

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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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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

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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