I get your stance, and I respect it. But this isn’t just about a scarcity meme—it’s about the signal we, as a community, send. Wallet developers take cues from culture. If we stand firm—“if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”—this won’t gain traction. But if voices like Jack Dorsey and others with massive followings normalize this shift, devs will start experimenting.
Then we’ll end up with fractured UX—wallets showing different numbers, people unsure how much bitcoin they actually hold, confusion rippling through new users and media. That’s not a UI improvement. That’s chaos.
And what’s most alarming is that this doesn’t feel organic—it feels like an organized psyop. We’ve all seen how topics are engineered to go viral. This isn’t a joke or a harmless debate. It’s coordinated. It’s serious. And it’s dangerous.
One of the loudest voices pushing this has over 6 million followers on X, and owns a company building Bitcoin wallets/ Bitkey/—hardware, mobile, and recovery tools. So yes—he can push this into production. And if we stay silent, others will follow.
We stop it now—or we sort through the confusion later. At scale.
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It doesn’t feel engineered at all. This has been an ongoing discussion for some time. Satoshi thought about it way back then too. I’m tired of everything being seen as an attack just because one doesn’t approve it. It’s an open source ecosystem and if an app changes units that’s fine - it’s their choice. The market will decide. I don’t see anything wrong with experimenting with this. In fact, I plan on doing just so with my own projects.
I don’t think any of the issues you are concerned about have as grave of consequences as you feel they do. But, I respect your opinion and remain cautiously in the don’t touch the thing that works camp for now. I fully agree it’ll be confusing. When we made Banco Libre we had bitcoin as the unit instead of sats (not by design) and that was confusing to me. But I have to be aware that people like me are few in the grand scheme of things and I’d rather get feedback from normies and not rely on my personal opinion and what I’m accustomed to already.
Also, I could be wrong. And I’d rather not find out.