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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin Unit Colour Chart
by
PandaMiner
on 12/07/2011, 06:28:11 UTC
The Satoshi is a stupid unit.  Make them all nano in that range. There's no need to break up the standard greek prefixes.

I was thinking why start with 3 decimal places?  Most, if not all, currencies go to the 2nd decimal place, which represents 1/100th of the whole.  The idea of 1/1,000th is foreign to everyday people/cultures.

I propose the following schema, which takes care of the Satoshi breaking the pattern.

9.87654321

9 BTC
87 centibits
654 microbits
321 satoshibits