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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin Unit Colour Chart
by
julz
on 12/07/2011, 07:00:37 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

But that doesn't work.
It's not 654 microbits
- it's 6 milli and 543 micro
or 6543 micro

If you're proposing that the 'micro' in your 'microbit' is not the standard SI micro..  then I don't think you'll get any agreement with that around here.