Cross posting from speculation thread.I'd like to nip the unit question in the bud and say that 10,000,000 (10M) atomic iotas should be "united" into a tradeable, human-understandable decimalized token referred to commonly as IOTA. So the 30,000 old-IOTA is now 83,385,930,000 atomic iotas (could be called αIOTA or aIOTA) or 8338.593 "IOTA"
With 10M atomic iota/IOTA units this puts the total IOTA supply (as you would see at coinmarketcap.com for example) at 277,953,028.3277761. The price my buyer paid per IOTA would be 1 / 8338.593 = 0.00011992 BTC which is much better understood to cryptocurrency markets than 0.0011992 satoshis.
I'd like to see the JS client UI also use the decimalized IOTA I'm proposing. In the backend it can still be atomic with no decimals. But for people, services, and exchanges, there should be a standardized unit that is put forward by the IOTA team. Ethereum for example uses an atomic unit called "wei" on the network, but has built-in units going up to "ether" to decimalize the units and make them easily tradeable and human-understandable.
I understand that IOTA isn't necessarily meant to be used mostly by people, however to be a token of value it needs to be traded on markets. To not put forward an official decimalized token would lead to deleterious effects on its market adoption, liquidity, and value.
