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jack 7 months ago
sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.

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bum 7 months ago
i said this already 🤷🏻‍♀️
Is anyone who's against the op_return PR in favor of this? I'm curious if people line up on the same sides of these issues. I personally think both are stupid ideas (removing the limit and trying to rename sats).
#bitcoin has no meaning .. it is NOT the unit .. it is reward for mining .. The real unit is #sats .. Bitcoin education totally messed it up .. cuz when you say #bitcoin ..it becomes symbol of scarcity..thus store of value .. When you use the word #sat ..it is abundance .. and this medium of exchange .. Being saying this for ever .. I mean over six months :-)
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If the unit is #sat - it is medium of exchange If the unit is #bitcoin - it is store of value .. Talk about #sats .. .. actual unit of network is Sats .... fix Bitcoin education ..
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"Hey normie friend, have you heard you can get a meal at Steak n Shake for 10,000 bitcoin." How does this help adoption exactly?
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idsera 7 months ago
If we search for sats on Google, the first ones results are a shitcoin called Sats.
“There will only ever be 2.1 quadrillion bitcoins” and wow one bitcoin is so cheap at $0.00104. Is now the right time to rename sats to bitcoins?
“Sats is definitely the wrong term” is an oddly arrogant take. Bitcoin’s been around for 15 years. 21 million BTC. 100 million sats per coin. This structure isn’t confusion—it’s precision. It’s history. It’s design. It’s intentional. Preserving that isn’t stubborn—it’s staying true. nevent1qqsrp3k4yl8tz6c9qlsv5pr8r2xf7a7hq6jj5mypmqw2ugjghy0490cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqeazfz
Imagine telling a Bitcoin noob: “Hey, the base idea of Bitcoin is that there will never be more than 21 quadrillion bitcoins.” They’d look at you like—what the hell are you talking about? Now tell them the truth: “There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin.” That line hits. It lands. It matters. If you don’t understand the difference, then I honestly don’t think you understand Bitcoin, or the memetic power that drives everything we’re building in cyberspace. This push to rebrand sats, flip decimals, and create 21 quadrillion coins is pure madness. It’s detached from reality. It’s a bizarre attempt to reshape something that’s already stood the test of 15 years. Yes, we can improve Bitcoin. Make it more robust, more decentralized, more resistant. But start there. Start by encouraging people to run full nodes. Educate them about consensus—what it is, who holds it, why it matters. Stop wasting energy on campaigns that solve no real problem and only risk breaking the culture that got us here. This isn’t progress. It’s vandalism. And it blows my mind.
I think that people who have barely heard of bitcoin know that there will only be (approximately) 21 million or at least that its supply has strict rules that do not allow absurd jumps and is decreasing. So, going from 21 million to 21 quadrillion, overnight, especially in a currency that is known for not being able to be created out of thin air, even if it is a mere nomenclature, seems to me to be a greater detriment to adoption than making people understand that 1 BTC = 100 million sats.
I think this will all be history when a sat is worth 1 cent, then a quarter of a dollar and so on. It will be poetic to say the least to see the creator's pseudonym become the most common and most used name of the creature.
All this "mathematical psychology" will lose its meaning when 1 sat becomes 1 cent, and then a quarter of a dollar, and so on... People will find their own terms for multiples of sats (10x, 100x, 1000s), and sats will probably be the name of the currency itself. It's all about thinking in BTC quantities and not in fiat quantities. What is extremely harmful is explaining to your non-bitcoiner friend that the network that you say doesn't create money out of thin air and used to have only 21 million BTC now has 21 quadrillions.
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roll_the_dice 7 months ago
Cap gains taxes are stopping that. sats is the term that emerged. Trying to change it now from the top down will fail and lead to even more confusion.
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PixelBob 7 months ago
Everyone should use "bitcoin sats" as the standard. After everyone is accustomed to the new unit of measure (many years) they will naturally want to shorten it and just drop the sats.
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Pickle Dan 🥒 7 months ago
cents is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending dollars.
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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AbsurdZugzwang 7 months ago
Sats seems fine to me. People understand the relation to a bit. It’s similar to dollars and cents.
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AbsurdZugzwang 7 months ago
Why is the use of Sats as a term stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin?
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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Felipe 7 months ago
Hm, yeah. This alone is a good reason to switch.
Why are listening to shitcoiners? There is no "crypto ecosystem" and nobody is afraid of thinking in sats. The problem is volatility, and it's not a problem it's evidence of growth and success. Nobody is going to jump to bitcoin as a unit of account until the volatility decreases and that is not until at least the 6th epoch. Stop trying to turn the knobs in hope of finding more signal. You do not change bitcoin, bitcoin changes you.
Idk how retarded people are these days, but when I learned people use btc to trade on the internet (silkroad at that time), it was clear that you just can have any denomination. Otherwise you couldn't make trades. The number bias is a problem solely constructed by investor mindset (stocks), not a problem of the regular user (money). Let stupid investors starve bc of number bias and just keep promoting btc as a daily driver money like you @jack are already doing.
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Ross Savage 7 months ago
I would say merchant adoption and capital gains on Bitcoin transactions are larger friction points
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zerkalo 7 months ago
If ain't broken, don't fix it.
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Conrad Keeps 7 months ago
While the simplicity is tempting, it could be damaging for someone to buy 10 ‘Bitcoin’ and find the fees to spend it make it not valuable, when they heard for 15 years how valuable bitcoin was/is.
Bitcoin is money… money is also a language. And if we’re trying to teach that language to the world, it has to be really, really easy. Not because people are stupid but bc learning a language is not easy. The more friction there is...decimal gymnastics, sats, jargon...the fewer people will speak it. That’s why people are moving toward treating bitcoin as pluralia tantum like bison or deer. Below 1? Just say bitcoin. And maybe the tradeoff is for whole coins or more, as dumb as it sounds, maybe bitcoins still has a place when you’re referring to discrete objects and would still be grammatically valid and arguably necessary for clarity. But mostly, it's bitcoin… no matter the amount. The language we use to teach the language shapes adoption and if we make it smooth and intuitive it will stick. But sats does kinda rhyme with cents. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll add my two cents… Thanks for mentioning this. I’ve been waiting to discuss this topic. I’ve addressed it in my research paper “Bitcoin: The Reality, The Issues, and The Potential”. Using sats as it relates to commerce is an *issue* of Bitcoin. Recall, according to the initial paper that introduced Bitcoin, Bitcoin is to be used for peer to peer online transactions. Therefore, my following perspective relates to commerce. To understand why it’s an *issue*, let’s start with the initial paper. In the paper, “sats” were never mentioned. Only Bitcoins. At the time, Bitcoin was not based on the value of the US dollar. Bitcoin was simply a new medium of exchange. If I sold a shirt, I would get 1 Bitcoin in exchange as proof that the transaction occurred . There was no US dollar value attached to the sale. And no fractional units at play. The inherent *value* was in the 1 Bitcoin itself. In my opinion, it should have stayed that way. It could have been *the* standard. Nevertheless, if people know the history of Bitcoin, the exchange for cash for Bitcoin came a little later. And now Bitcoin’s *value* is based on the US dollar. Furthermore, this *value* fluctuates based on many factors which is another issue for Bitcoin as it relates to commerce. When the price of Bitcoin started to increase and became too expensive to purchase a whole Bitcoin, people started to encourage the buying of fractional amounts. Specifically sats. And sats then took on a life of its own. With that said, now we’re here. 🤷‍♀️ So, let’s explore two examples. Example 1. Suppose a luxury car sells for $50,000. The seller agrees to accept Bitcoin. Which of the following sounds and looks better for the sale? 1. 0.5 Bitcoin, or 2. 50,000,000 sats Most people would say 0.5 Bitcoin. So, decimals are fine. Correct? Example 2. Suppose a bag of potato chips sells for $5. The seller agrees to accept Bitcoin. Which of the following sounds and looks better for the sale? 1. 0.00005 Bitcoin, or 2. 5000 sats Most people would say 5000 sats. So, sats are fine. Correct? Thus, the usage depends on the sales amount. Correct? Mathematically, it makes sense to use decimals or fractions. With that said, we know most people struggle with math. 🥴 But does it make sense to value *everything* in sats? No. Using sats as a denomination for every sale has never made sense to me especially for values over $100. So, what’s a *potential* solution? One answer: Create additional denominations. For the US dollar, there are denominations other than a penny. If sats are considered the Bitcoin version of the penny, then create a nickel, dime, quarter, 50-cent version of Bitcoin. You can choose what you want to call them. For those who struggle with math especially decimals and fractions (fourth grade concepts) 🥴, let me help you. A penny is 1/100th of a dollar. A nickel is 1/20th (5/100th) of a dollar. A dime is 1/10th (10/100th) of a dollar. A quarter is 1/4 (25/100th) of a dollar. You can create similar denominations for Bitcoin. I’ll let y’all hash it out. For the record, this is one potential solution and it’s relatable. There are other solutions as well. If you don’t like the one posted, then you post a potential *solution*. 🙃 Personally speaking, I think decimals and fractions should be used as it relates to subunits of Bitcoin for the majority of transactions. Sats could be used when representing the value of items less than $100. Why? Because of the following…As a comparison, we use decimals daily when writing dollar amounts. $25.14, $7656.43, $0.34. We rarely write $25.14 as 2514 cents or $7656.43 as 765643 cents 🥴 Nonetheless, $0.34 can typically be written as 34 cents. Since Bitcoin’s value is based on the dollar, it would make sense to create something that is relatable to the dollar. You’re more than welcome to create something else but take into consideration learning curve and adoption. As stated previously, Bitcoin should have stayed 1:1. Simple and easy. 1 Bitcoin exchanged in a peer to peer transaction as written in the initial paper. That’s it. Nothing else. But now we’re here. 🤦‍♀️ P.S. I’m not sharing my research paper yet. I’m not posting my *work*. I’ll share it in due time. Please excuse the long response. I believe it was a little over two pages. I wrote an informal version of what’s in the research paper. I wrote it and not AI. 🙄 The research paper is more thorough though. I’m an academic! 🥳 For those who want to comment on my post, you are welcome to do so. Remember to be respectful.
0.01 btc = 10,000.00 bits ✔ 0.01 btc = 1,000,000 sats ❌ Marketing wise, "bits" is approachable. Think normie. 1. Brand familiarity. BITcoin, BITs. Easier correlation. 2. Decimal placement, familiarity with currency denomination. 3. Human readable, human approachable. Meet people where they're at. "I'll pay you one dollar" vs "I'll pay you one hundred pennies." $1.00 / 100¢ "I'll pay you one bit," v "I'll pay you one hundred sats." 1.00 bit / 100 sats
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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Sure, calling 21,000 bitcoins instead of 21,000 satoshis will magically boost adoption. By that logic, we should start calling 21 cents “21,000 usd”... sounds so much more appealing, right? Sure, most people don't know what a satoshi is, but we are just being lazy as educators...
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Oh, please. Call it "something you pay for stuff with" then. Whether it appreciates or depreciates is besides the pint. Can you price scrambled eggs in it? If yes, that's what we're talking about.
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freedomist 7 months ago
twitter is definitely the wrong term and was stopping everyday people from posting on x. I don’t agree with both points. The reason some people are not spending is because it’s a capital gains tax event. Another reason is they want to keep the harder money and spend melting fiat first. Another reason merchants don’t have that option on square or products they are using. In some countries, it’s not legal tender as exchange of services. But there is no reason someone doesn’t spent sats because they did not like those 4 letters.
Everyday people care more about privacy than names for small units.
Anybody that cares more about bitcoin as money than as an investment tool should get on-board with this change. Bitcoin is money, and nobody knows what sats are. Saylor won't be happy about this, but he's turned a FIAT villain since some time now. View quoted note →
I mean people will price things in sats or denominations of multiples of sats, which may be jargon that we can't even think of yet. Suppose that is a problem. Changing the name sat to btc will only increase the problem. In addition to people having to face the problem of scale (today a sat is not worth a cent and it is necessary to invent expressions for multiples of sats, which would also be necessary for multiples of the new denomination, btc) they will still have to understand why the 21 million btc became 21 quadrillion. Só, basically, the solution is to add another layer into the problem.
I’ve had to reiterate time and time again to people I’ve explained Bitcoin to that sats = cents. Granted, the dollars of the world have had a governing body to mandate the name but since Bitcoin is following natural adoption and still early, I think I’ll try using bits in my conversations to see if it resonates. I can see it being easier to explain but Sats also opens up the questions to “why sats” which leads you to the origin story and further hooks to why bitcoin is different than the rest.
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Slurix 7 months ago
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Garrett 7 months ago
"There's only ever going to be 2.1 quadrillion bitcoin" doesn't hit as well
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KD9to 7 months ago
Yeah I guess it would be unusual. It would be like renaming cents as dollars and that being the only denomination. I think there’s definitely utility in having at least two denominations, it helps in accounting, pricing and speech. Perhaps we could peg the price of one bitcoin to the price of a cup of coffee in the developed world and make a sat 100th of that and a microSat a further 100th for micro transactions.
In Vietnam for example there is one word: dong. 1 USD is around 25,000 dong. There is no other word. If you want to sell something you can ask for 100k dong, 1 million dong, 100 million dong, 1 billion dong, whatever. Works totally fine. You don't need multiple words. We already have the words: hundred, thousand, million, billion...
This is uncomfortably true for Bitcoiners and evidently clear for anyone that works on UX. I introduce Bitcoin to <a lot> of people on the lower end of technical literacy and the introduction of sats is definitely a common point of friction when it comes to using Bitcoin. Not only is the sats brand kind of awkward by way of idolatry, it's also kind of unnatural for people to have to divide by 100,000,000 (sats) rather than just 100 (cents) and it''s just confusing for most people. Things simply need to just work and just make sense. Another reality is that the problem is already solved for opponents to this "change". Owners of entire Bitcoins are already referred to as Wholecoiners or having a Whole coin. Let that continue, while allowing everyone else to simply buy and spend Bitcoin. View quoted note →
I’ve been catching heat all day from the “sats forever” or “whole-coiner” diehards, but after multiple rounds of Discord drama, your take is honestly spot on. All the self-proclaimed Bitcoin “experts” fumbling just trying to figure out how many cents are in one satoshi “it’s 1 cent, it’s 0.1 of a cent, it’s 1/10 of a cent” etc etc– if that’s not proof the UX is busted, I don’t know what is. Decimals like “0.000038 BTC” and niche terms like “millibits” or “μBTC” aren’t helping normies ether; they’re creating friction that pushes everyday people away and convinces these same normies to stay locked in the fiat money system.
People still call it Twitter. You can’t effectively rename things once they are out in the wild. Doesn’t matter if it’s “wrong”. (it’s not- “sats” is an emergent term that honors the creator) nevent1qqsrp3k4yl8tz6c9qlsv5pr8r2xf7a7hq6jj5mypmqw2ugjghy0490cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqeazfz
Yes exactly. The words Sats is all you need, the word Bitcoin becomes unnecessary and slowly becomes like the word Bullion for gold, used only by traders and such. Just a silly branding move, that's all. Build the Bitcoin brand, then throw it all away for the Sats brand.
No because you can price normal things in dollars. You can't price normal things in BTC. Denomination words fade out of a language when you can't price normal things in them.
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Fuck all of this “easy onboarding talk” 👋 When visiting other countries the first few days people are confused by the difference in currency and always calculate into their own. But nobody gets to decide the other countries name for their currency and starts referring to it as “a 10th of my currency coin”. So the nobody despite their logic, influence or whatever will dictate how these decentralized nation will call its smallest denominator.
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Fuck all of this “easy onboarding talk” 👋 When visiting other countries the first few days people are confused by the difference in currency and always calculate into their own. But nobody gets to decide the other countries name for their currency and starts referring to it as “a 10th of my currency coin”. So the nobody despite their logic, influence or whatever will dictate how these decentralized nation will call its smallest denominator.
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Dow 7 months ago
Overthinking it… missing the forest for the trees. People don’t use Bitcoin or sats because it’s still not stupid easy to use for normal people and there’s still not enough merchant adoption. The name isn’t changing that, just education and risk takers do change it.
Nanobitcoin would be accurate but boring. Satoshi didn't ask for anything in return - I think he deserces 'sats.'
Thanks for your take. Other than this thread posted by @jack , I haven’t peeped into anything else. I’m sure people are talking in circles and giving themselves a headache. 🥴 Honestly, I was waiting to follow up with more information. But I’ll go ahead and add it now. Part 2 of My Response: Creating a new denomination system is potential solution. But it is only a temporary solution and not a permanent fix. Why? Because the value of Bitcoin is volatile and not fixed. For those who want Bitcoin to increase to $1,000,000, it will change the value of a sat. And other denominations. As a result, the smallest denominations will be hard to fathom in everyday use. At this point, it’s too late to go back to the 1:1 system. The only exception is if everyone agrees to remove the valuation system from Bitcoin. Now who wants to go back to Bitcoin being $0.00? Are people ready to have *that* conversation? Since governments, investment companies, businesses, etc. have a financial stake in Bitcoin, are they willing to be ok with Bitcoin being $0.00. Since they will HODL, can Bitcoin even go down to $0.00? Probably not. I recall people were ecstatic when Bitcoin made it to $100k. And when I had some issues with it, I received a multitude of negative comments. 🤷‍♀️ So I kindly repeat, who wants Bitcoin to go back to being $0.00? As a reminder, the original intent of Bitcoin was to bypass financial institutions. But now we’re here. I’m an educator. I can pose these questions all day. Many of the Bitcoiners are overly passionate about Bitcoin. At times, too emotional and don’t think logically about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is founded in math. Math is rational, logical, and analytical. Some math concepts have fixed solutions. Bitcoin has a finite amount. 21 million. Once it became attached to something that is considered infinite (the US dollar because it can be printed to infinity), we now have a problem. Who can think of a logical solution to the problem? How can adoption be increased around the world? Is the term sats holding people back from adoption? Or are other things holding people back from adopting Bitcoin? If so, list them AND provide solutions. Math problems typically have solutions. Who can provide attainable solutions that can be reasonably implemented ? P.S. Answer carefully. Otherwise, you’ll give “them” justification to usher in stablecoins.
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Chad Lupkes 7 months ago
I disagree. I don't see a need to change anything. We don't need to encourage adoption with a terminology change, it's going to happen no matter what words are used for whatever. All this is doing is splitting the community and putting us against each other, when what we should be doing is aligning and working towards a common goal. Words are arbitrary, Jack. They are abstract descriptors for things based on language and culture. They are all open to interpretation, by default. Primarily, they are a distraction. Let's stop dividing and distracting ourselves. There's too much work to do. Unity in action trumps semantic squabbles.
The developing world sending remittances figured it out People living in hyperinflation figured it out Activists figured it out The corporations & sovereigns figured it out Kenyans using Tango figured it out Home miners figured it out Necessity leads to understanding
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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superkruger 7 months ago
Reminds me of early Christianity. Every group want their own church. You're free to fork Bitcoin and start your own church and call everything whatever you want. But changing code won't make a difference, people will gravitate toward clients that make sense to them.
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Dinp 7 months ago
i got a message on Twitter from Tessa internet taktic?
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Dinp 7 months ago
Tell me what to do?
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Dinp 7 months ago
Jack:Follow me on Twitter...stupid monkey..
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Dinp 7 months ago
sometime tonight..
Strong disagree here. Biggest question, for me, is why now? Why is this argument, attempting to change something which has evolved over time through the community at large, happening at this moment in time? Just as a bigger discussion about op return is going on? Seems like obfuscation to me. Totally unnecessary. 21 million. That's the end of the matter as far as I'm concerned.
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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Come on, it's just two names and primary math. The other name is the pseudonym of the creator. How difficult that can be? People with an IQ unable to get that, probably will not adopt BTC in the first place.
This is stupid, the market / users already settled on Sats, you can't force change that. Ppl know the difference between dollars and cents, it's the same thing, they are not that stupid, this "discussion" is.
Atoms is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from embracing existence in the material realm
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Dinp 7 months ago
I followed You..on Twitter..
What is confusing to newcomer is exactly this debate poping out every few years. We owe it to Satoshi Jack! Stop it.
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21M 7 months ago
Have to respectfully disagree with you in this Jack. It's always been 21M Bitcoin and it should remain that way. Also stack Sats on Saturday just won't sound right. Sats make cents.
Below is a single fiat currency, and you're argument is that's far too much freedom for your decentralized alternative. You know, the one that prevents a small group of elites and insiders from altering peoples perception of money? Jack, your statist is showing again, bubba. image
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My son & all his friends instantly got what a “sat” or a “satoshi” was when I said - it’s like Bitcoins cents - there is nothing about it that’s complicated to understand & it doesn’t need a rebrand 😂 what Bitcoin needs is real world companies & people using it - they will call it whatever it’s called.. when they use it.. the issue of not understanding.. and slow adoption has nothing to do with the name. nevent1qqsrp3k4yl8tz6c9qlsv5pr8r2xf7a7hq6jj5mypmqw2ugjghy0490cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqeazfz
I just blow into my screen thinking a littke spider was walking over it. Take my sats
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Dinp 7 months ago
(message)Τessa internet tactic on twitter is asking me for my email and password,what should i do?
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Dinp 7 months ago
Dino:Tessa internet tactic(scam)?
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Pickle Dan 🥒 7 months ago
Personally, I think the most irritating part of this is that this guy speaks as if he knows anything about the everyday person? He probably has more Sats than most people using NOSTR combined. Most of the time I like what Jack has to say, but this is a hard miss.
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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There will only ever be 2.1 quadrillion bitcoin.. might as well get some in case it catches on!!! nevent1qqsrp3k4yl8tz6c9qlsv5pr8r2xf7a7hq6jj5mypmqw2ugjghy0490cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqeazfz
From most of the replies, I feel like not many have actually watched the video 🙈
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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@jack No beginner I've taught Bitcoin to (it's in the thousands now) has been confused about how Sats are smaller pieces of a whole Bitcoin. Neither kids nor adults. Literally not one person has had trouble with it. Of all things Bitcoin confuses people about, this ain't it dawg. 😒
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the history of US dollar sign 💲 is interesting in this context, as its most likely origin has nothing to do with the American dollar and much more likely with the Spanish pesos. This one was widely known in the general population and there adoption (So no greater big brain logic, just giving the common man what he wants) Perplexity: The dollar sign ($) is used in the United States because, when the U.S. established its own currency after independence, it modeled the new dollar on the widely used Spanish dollar (or peso), which had been the most common currency in the American colonies for over a century. The Spanish dollar’s symbol and value system were already deeply familiar to Americans, merchants, and the broader economy.
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Deleted Account 7 months ago
people have compared things like tailored suits, life stock and similar things to what ever they saved in for a long time. e.g. a suit would be 0.0243 B 2,430,000 sats Meaning many things people will buy have less symbols up until another 100x Let’s wait until the user base and adoption has at least 10x before trying to confuse everyone
People are echoing it and crying about this But no one is explaining their thoughts process behind it Maybe they don't have one
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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pam 7 months ago
Occam’s Razor. Perhaps A/B testing on large sample sizes might provide deeper insights into the complexities of global onboarding and what actually works. For example, micro and small vendors make up nearly 90% of global businesses and contribute almost half of global revenue, yet only 20% - 30% have adopted digital tools. From my experience they understand the value of money but do not yet appreciate the complexity of exchange. Bitcoin adoption sits at a moderate 4% of the global population after 16 years. We need to figure out what would help accelerate the s-curve