I am going to start using the term "bits" from now on when quoting prices. I agree with Gavin.
Price is currently about $0.000387 per bit. Let's go for bit-dollar parity!
To be honest, I think this whole 21M thing and even more so the utilization of the decimal fractions make absolutely no f¤ked sense for something like Bitcoin. This is just retarded in my opinion. A stupid mind trick fling and/or superstition service which sacrifices logic and ease of use. Not an optimal, not logical, not convenient, not nice.
If I were the one to set up a maximum number for the coin supply, my first candidate would have been the highest possible number granted by the size of the underlaying integer or floating point variable but I would have revised it to an y=10^x (where x is a convenient whole number, something close to 20).
Even if I make myself not caring about the 21 thing, but... decimal fractions?
DECIMAL FRACTIONS?
REALLY???
REALLY?
Makes no f¤cked sense. No no no... It's just wrong. Illogic and inconvenient = suboptimal ~ stupid.