If we change sats to bitcoin what the fuck do we call a bitcoin? A hundred million bitcoins? Do you know how confusing that is? There’s only ever supposed to be 21 million bitcoin.

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John 10 months ago
Why are the poors so obsessed with sub-coin denominations?
lol the over complication here is hilarious. I bought my first btc in 2021 and immediately understood sats. I think I switched all my apps to showing sats in 2022 and haven’t gone back since. If you understand Bitcoin at any level, you understand sats
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Ryan Reynolds 10 months ago
This has surpassed the stupidity of Microsoft naming their e-mail app ‘Outlook’ (formerly hotmail), when there was already a software program by the same name. Doubly stupid as Sats are rapidly becoming more relevant as the fiat price increases.
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Gigi dergigi.com 10 months ago
Money and language are incredibly important. Messing with either always leads to disaster. Organic emergence is the sane, healthy, and natural approach.
In a philosophical inquiry, Shakespeare posed the question, "What is in the name?" Satoshi Nakamoto concurred, emphasizing, "#bitcoin is money—it must serve as a medium of exchange for routine transactions." Gandalf, "The essence takes precedence over the form. Now, fly, you fools." 😬
this is a good point i hadn't thought of. mostly because i haven't spent much time thinking about the argument because i find it a silly waste of pontification energy. but thank you and i love you
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StevenB 10 months ago
Yeah, we can call it a Superior Asset Store… or SAT for short.
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Phil 10 months ago
How much is smolcoin?
It’s meant to create confusion. If there are suddenly orders of magnitude more bitcoin, it undermines the entire narrative and turns normies off because they’ll think it’s a scam. nevent1qqsqqqt9vhz9ksv5wztuhm0x02rwfd58u9uyv57schfuv94fs6srvpspzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cs6389ur
Nooo, when I said I lost 30 BTC in the boating accident it was 30 sats, your honour. Here's the 7 sats Cap Gains anyway.
I'm always fascinated how mankind is capable of fucking up over and over again. Just let the most perfect invention in millennia be. Don't touch it, don't rename it, don't get people confused before mass adoption. OMG
If we’re stuck on “how we call a bitcoin” instead of just making the damn system smoother for everyone, we’re missing the bigger picture: mass adoption won’t happen if we keep confusing new users with tiny decimals, fractions, and weird terms.
we need to rename nostr to ‘no’ if were ever going to see mass adoption.
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db 10 months ago
right?!, its so strange that Jack is not seeing it that way, its almost suspicious. 🤨
Exactly. I would really appreciate us not pretending this is anything other than peasant mentality people trying to stop other peasant people buying XRP due to unit bias. Rich people like scarce things. 2.1 quadrillion bitcoin has shitcoin written all over it. Not to mention we have spent years telling the world there will only be 21m bitcoin, and then we just go.... "Only kidding, now we have 2.1 quadrillion" And one last point; "the base unit in the code has no decimal" is pure retardation. That's like saying there is no such thing as words, there are only letters, so now we call words, letters too. Bring back 2018 when we all called each other retards, so we didn't have to live as one 🤣
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roll_the_dice 10 months ago
Also, if someone is so confused by sats being subunits of bitcoins, they def do not have the mental capacity to deal with private keys.
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Kevin Cyber 10 months ago
We will not call Sats Bitcoin. Easy. I don't know who started this fuckery but Bitcoin = Freedom. I'm not a sheep.
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Leinad 10 months ago
Satoshi deserves to be named every time we use Bitcoin. Period.
We're not changing the name. SATs are the standard and are here to stay. 1 Bitcoin will always be 1/21,000,000th of the whole network, and 1 Sat will always be the smallest unit on the network. But I don't believe 1 Bitcoin will always equal 100,000,000 Sats.
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Chad Lupkes 10 months ago
There are 21 million square kilometers. Each of those can be divided into 100,000,000 square centimeters. A centimeter is not a kilometer. A Sat is not a Bitcoin.
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Deleted Account 10 months ago
Jack Dorsey of all people think it’s a good idea Meanwhile Steak & Shakeus accepting bitcoin nationally and Square terminals still don’t He needs to focus on what matters Not this retarded dumb ass BIO
Things that were supposed to be about Bitcoin: *21 million Bitcoin *Peer to peer cashless online transactions *Bypassing financial institutions *Proof of work And anything else stated in the paper that introduced Bitcoin.
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DrZhivago 10 months ago
Just say whatever the fuck you want. This is so fucking stupid. Everyone but me is retarded.
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siam legacy 10 months ago
Limited supply, the longer you wait the more expensive it gets. Better start stacking sats today
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If we change sats to bitcoin what the fuck do we call a bitcoin? A hundred million bitcoins? Do you know how confusing that is? There’s only ever supposed to be 21 million bitcoin.
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Asdf 10 months ago
Wait, there's really a discussion going on about this? That's sounds like a joke.
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Kaizen 10 months ago
Dollars and cents. Bitcoin and sats. Why is it so hard?
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G 10 months ago
It would actually make more sense than "bitcoins"
Personally I don't give a dime, a Benjamín or a red cent to creative, artistic terms for money. The metric system is so logical. Hundreds, tens and units are easy to handle and visualise. Stick to similar: Bitcoin, something and Sats. Any other term is just noise and will create barriers to adoption of a money that is supposed to be plain, simple truth.