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Re: 1,000,000 bits = 1 bitcoin. Future-proofing Bitcoin for common usage? VOTE
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LMGTFY
on 02/05/2014, 21:39:52 UTC
100 satoshis (no more than 2 digits after the decimal point) is the right unit size... but all variants of 'microbitcoin' are awkward names: "microbitcoin", "µBTC", "microbits", "crobits", "eubits", "mubits", "mics".

Unfortunately "bit" is also a problematic name. Some reasons are listed here:

http://zibcoin.org/faq#why-not-bits-to-mean-microbitcoins

The best bet would be to make-up another distinctive one-syllable word that doesn't have any conflicting meanings inside the Bitcoin system.

My proposal is 'zib', chosen to be very similar to 'bit' – usable in all the same places – with even-better options for abbreviation and no meaning-collisions. More info is at:

http://zibcoin.org

...and discussion thread....

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=529301


Of all the many, many proposals (all of which seem to me to be solutions in search of a problem) "Zib" is the only one I've seen where there's been a real effort to provide the tools and information to make the change - most times the issue is presented as either "all we need to do is... [non trivial thing]" (social problem) or "all the developers need to do is... [non trivial thing]" (technical problem).

Incidentally, the names you say are variants of "microbitcoin" - strictly they're variants of BTC itself, the same way gigabyte is a variant of byte, millilitre is of litre, microgram of gram, etc. Well, the familiar ones are - "crobits" and "eubits" are new to me, and I can't determine scale from the names (which, incidentally, is one thing I do dislike about "Zib" - it uses a new name to replace familiar names).