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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: 1,000,000 bits = 1 bitcoin. Future-proofing Bitcoin for common usage? VOTE
by
BurtW
on 20/06/2014, 20:45:52 UTC
But I dont understand why your fighting sooo much to add bits? Most people are comfortable using sats.
I would not say I am "fighting" for it.  The main reason that people do not like to switch to satoshi directly is that it is not an "even" number of BTC in the SI unit prefixes (giga, mega, kilo, milli, micro, nano):

100 satoshis = 1 microBTC
100 megasatoshis = 1 BTC
0.1  gigasatoshis = 1 BTC

10 nanoBTC = 1 satoshi
0.01 microBTC = 1 satoshi

See?  It is kind of "messy".

Bottom line is that we have concensus on the meaning of BTC, bitcoin and satoshi (and all the SI prefixed units derived from these) all the other ideas and proposals are just ideas, proposals and conjecture at this point.