Topic: The Best Symbol For The Satoshi (Read 624 times)

The main logo character is easy to reproduce so i like logo consist with $+@.
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I agree on it is really cool.  Kinda unique and somehow refreshing, soft to the eyes and it makes you stare at it. 

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I do agree, I think we need a symbol for satoshi just like USD and cents, they have their own unique symbol.  Using mBTC or other stuff seems too long  as a symbol for me.

No. 4 satoshi symbol is great in style and meaning so therefore it should be suited to the coin. I bet there would be a day that the bitcoin developer team would pick a logo, a time that when 1 satoshi is worth a dollar, so they should be ready in all times.

No. 1: Many crafts are offered, from all variations of the symbol that contain the name that created the bitcoin the term "Satoshi" comes from the first "name" of the Bitcoin figure, Satoshi Nakomoto. I hope this symbol will facilitate the introduction of bitcoin to the public.

The best symbol for the Satoshi is only BTC,because that is the original and already popular that's why I think no need to have another symbol for satoshi. BTC is enough even bitcoin become more and more valuable in the future. But if you really need my opinion,I will choose the first logo stands for satoshi.

My country is SI based, i use millimeters all the time. Its not about figuring what it means, its the inconvenience of it. 1€ or 1$ might sound convenient to YOU, but you forget those 2 coins also have TWO decimals. This is where all this discussion came about in the first place: 1¢ as in cent, which happens to be the unit before the mili, as in centimeter.

If you wanted to be SI compliant, you would have to use the word 10 nano bitcoin, which is much longer than saying 1 satoshi. OR you could say a 0.001 micro bitcoins which is the same garbage as mBTC.

There is ZERO inconvenience in sticking to satoshis. But there IS is you use mBTC, you force people to ask one or two questions: How many Satoshis is that, how many decimals that was. AND, you are using reasoning that will become moot over time "that it looks like €", because bitcoin price will remain forever locked to the €... So what are you going to do if bitcoin price goes 100k or 500k?

The mBTC was proposed as a BIP and i totally reject it. Only bitcoin or satoshis is enough, for now. If they ever expand to 16 decimals, another one will be needed. Even the one being used by LN which is 12 decimals might need a name...

But not mBTC, that has no place anywhere, it only creates confusion, i recommend anyone to avoid this.

At this time, you need about 150 million of my country's fiat to buy 1 bitcoin. We are no longer on par with satoshi, that was last week. This week you need one and a half bolivars to buy 1 satoshi. Everything in the street is expressed in those prices, things normally cost 10 thousand or 100 thousand, it is perfectly normal and easy. 1 bitcoin is 100 million satoshis, or 150 million bolivars.

Hyperinflation is always used as text book example of economies that would switch to bitcoin. But in reality we would be working with the satoshi, as 1 bitcoin looks incredibly impossible, when a monthly wage here is perhaps 25000 satoshis. Some of you euro people probably earn a quarter or half bitcoin in a month...

That joke coin is even better than our fiat. Game money, such as that from games like WoW is far more valuable, and that has no blockchain or protection of any kind, its pure printing worse than fiat. Anyone living here that doesn't manage to get any income in any foreign currency, is in trouble as the "socialist" State isn't going to save you by giving you some left overs once a month you are supposed to eat from.

Instead of a symbol we can just use units that are already approved by the IUPAC , we have some like micro denoted by (neu, weird u) , but unfortunately we don't already have these symbols in out Google keyboard but at the same time they are internationally recognized and we can actually make a good use out of them
This way we can without any problems get it to be recognized in the market preety fast.

I'm thinking that the best symbol presented was number 1. I mean, it's not that the symbol says a lot but behind it, the explanation gives a good background to where does the symbol came from. Probably not the 'superman'-like symbol .

So you are saying 1 BTC will be equivalent to 100 million USD? I think even John McAfee might consider that a bit too optimistic. I guess if the dollar completely collapses and the inflation rate goes through the roof maybe.

The rate at which bitcoin is growing, I am sure that in the next 10 years, the number of currencies that 1 satoshi would have over taken will be much, the moment bitcoin supply goes near zero, the price of bitcoin would be so high that many people would turn to satoshi then , and I am also sure that by that time, 1 satoshi may be equals to 1 united states  dollar, and this may really bring about the end for the American dollar.

By the time bit coin stabilizes on I usd dollars to 1 satoshi for life, many country’s would prefer to hold it than holding the United states dollar, and also rely on using it for more of their operations oversees than changing their money to the united states dollar. Anyway, I am eagerly waiting for that period also that I can boast of having so many satoshis.

If these symbols you presented is for the preparation of 1 satoshi = 1 usd in the future, I would go with the first picture, my guts are telling me that it's a decent design and a very attractive one, but maybe with another color.

Surely. So it's time to make it official for some small country

I would like to mention that 1 Satoshi is now worth more than 7 national world's currencies.

I have a few very important things to point out on this subject.

1: We're not replacing "BTC". We're discussing a new symbol to represent the unit of BTC, "satoshi". We have a symbol for $ and ¢. It only makes sense to have BTC and $@. Additionally, other denominations of BTC , bits, etc., can coexist with satoshis as useful units.

2: the $ symbol is used for some 20 currencies around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar I think for many people around the world '$' is understood to mean "money" in general. The sat symbol ($@) is not a shoutout to our fiat friends, its is a symbol of a new kind of money, decentralized internet money.

3. $@ could potentially be aesthetic and functional. I image sending bitcoin could be as simple as sending an email: "1000$@alice". One idea is to not have a designated $@ key on the keyboard, which would create significant hardware issues. Instead, you could produce the sat symbol by typing the two characters, "$@", consecutively, which would then automatically be converted the sat symbol. This approach would require only software development and would likely not require keyboard changes.

4. Creating a completely new symbol for sats is not a menial task. I personally believe that $@ is very intuitive and has great potential. However, I also understand the appeal of using a character already in Unicode.

5. The satoshi symbol should emerge organically, in true bitcoin fashion. Developers and users should feel free to use whichever symbol they feel best represents the satoshi.


If you think $@ is a good option, please consider sharing and contributing to the project! https://github.com/bitficus/theSat
https://github.com/bitficus/theSat/raw/master/TheSat.jpg

Its really not necessary getting another symbol as bitcoin already has one that isn't contested but I must confess that those are beautiful symbols being put out there

Good to read all these comments.
I agree that Sats is the common parlance and it's easy enough to write but there probably will come a time when it will require a symbol. Agreed that the $ just won't do and it would make a lot of sense to use a symbol we all have access to such as the   §   symbol

I think I prefer sat > s@. It's faster to type and requires the same number of keystrokes, at least on a QWERTY keyboard. For touch typers, S and A are both on the left-hand home row whereas T is a slight movement away from F. @ requires both a wrist movement from the right hand & pinky as well as a stretch from the left hand ring finger to the @ sign.

Anyone in any country that uses the SI-system understands what mBTC means. It's still my favourite unit: not too big, not too small. It's closest to euro/dollar in value, and thus very convenient for "daily" amounts.

That's exactly what I noticed instantly. Although it's quite clever to combine the "S" from Satoshi with the second and third character ("at") in the form of "@".

It looks good, but it's terrible to type.

The fact that Bitcoin can be divided into 8 decimals confused me for much longer than it should have. With fiat, 2 decimals is easy. Anything with 3 decimals is common too (thousand, million, billion). But 8 decimals is just weird And it's far too big to count: you can't instantly see the value of 0.0000002 BTC without carefully counting the zeros.

It doesn't fit the SI-prefixes.

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For now, I'll keep using what I've been using for a long time:
BTC (for big amounts)
mBTC (for more common amounts, although I usually add the Bitcoin amount for people who don't understand it)
satoshi (written in full or as "sat") (for small amounts).

Example

I think you just answered yourself. Because no one is using it. If bitcoin goes to 100k or even higher, satoshi value will be more used.
Again, no one is forcing it or replacing bitcoin. No one is saying that this will be official! The thread is about the best satoshi symbol. Why i opened this thread? Simply because i like the artistic side of life and i would like to see some Satoshi symbols. I would enjoy that. No need to be accepted as official symbol.

I think we already have enough symbols and I agree mBTC is already there so why should we need another symbol for sats?
I mean mBTC is there but only few are using it most of us are still using BTC instead of mBTC so why bother creating another symbol?