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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: How much is 1 bit?
by
solomon
on 21/05/2014, 04:51:37 UTC
A bit is a micro-bitcoin. This leaves two decimal places...

Now that's just silly.

I don't know anybody that uses the word in that way. That seems like a great way to cause confusion.

With that usage you can't shorten the word "microbitcoin" to "microbit" in conversation, since microbit would apparently actually mean micromicrobitcoin? Bah, that's just ridiculous.

I think I'll stick with the usage I hear regularly.

More people are using 1 bit = 1 uBTC than 1 bit = 1 BTC. Have a look at r/Bitcoin. It makes more sense if we make the assumption that bitcoin gets popular in the future and practically no one will have a whole bitcoin.

It's a good solution to quite a few problems.