It's not something I'm super confident about and of course I don't want to scare users, but yes I already decided that there will be switch to mBTC as default on bitcoinity (with option in preferences to switch back to BTC). It should happen pretty soon.
Regarding slowness, I already did throw some more hardware at it and it should be better (is it?), other than that I still have some optimizations left but I need to change architecture a bit because 1Gbit/s turns out to be a bottleneck at certain points.
Also it's kinda hard to focus on coding and doing useful stuff having these bitcoinity charts opened..
Maybe you could put the BTC price in tiny print beneath the large price display... that might help to prevent confusion.