People are already very, very accustomed to thinking in terms of Dollars and Cents. They can easily swap in whole "bitcoin" for "dollar" and "sats" for cents. Giving them symbols that are obvious (a lowercase "b" seems like a "little version" of the uppercase "B" they've seen everywhere) seems like a much friendlier ramp from stuff they're used to than some bizarre tree-looking thing. Bitcoin is weird enough and has enough new concepts as is.

I guess in a way you lowercase b idea is easy to understand and adopt, but the sat symbol on multiple different services is a vertical line with 3 horizontal lines going though it. But you've converted me 😂

1. It is connected to the sat symbol:

Sat Symbol - Support the design initiative to make this the universal Satoshi symbol. Open, free, and unrestricted as Satoshi would have wanted. Please share. Satoshi Symbol, Sats Symbol.

2. No, it doesn't 3. Lower casing the subunit is a made up convention, and already has a use. No thanks, I'll stick to the sat symbol.

what makes that symbol the sat symbol?

2. ETH uses Ξ . the similarity to the ultimate shitcoin is too much for me 3. and this 'sats symbol' isn't a made up convention? it's all made up, we're making it all up. we've got a chance to make something up that a wider audience will be able to recognize. you really don't think that lowercasing a subunit doesn't have an immediate rationale to it, even for the uninitiated? besides, the convention isn't *entirely* novel: in computing, bytes are B, bits are b. chemistry: m vs M (molal vs molar concentration) math: p vs P (probability value vs measure)