Re: Brainstorm: displaying of bitcoin prices & balances, BTC Vs BITS
Do we need to call the fractional units as mills and bits? Why not stick with milli-bitcoins and micro-bitcoins?
People all over the world use the metric system. We should adopt it too.
People all over the world use the metric system. We should adopt it too.
Because people don't use full metric prefixes for money. No salesman puts a sticker price of 17 kilodollars on a car. No one says BillG is worth 40 gigadollars.
You might use an abbreviation and say a car cost 17 "k", just as you can say 17 "grand". It is a shorthand which is in common usage.
Mil has been used historically before e.g.
