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#fuck_jews 8 months ago
keep the bits ditch the quadrillions stuff
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⚡Arvik⚡ 8 months ago
Kek. I think this just paving the way for $1 = 1sat But sats named Bitcoin=$1/BTC. I can hear it now... "I paid only $1 each for my Bitoin, why did you frogs pay tens of thousands" 🤣🤣 "$1 per Bitcoin is too expensive " 🤣🤣
How about Lightning on those ubiquitous Square POS terminals Jack? Bit more important than changing Sats to Bits don’t you think? image
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Cody 8 months ago
I'm ok with Bits in addition to Sats. I'm also ok with just calling Sats Bitcoins. This is even less consequential than the Op_Return debate. Just do what you want
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Clippycoiner 8 months ago
8 Billion humans who use Bitcoin and the dominant culture of humanity >>> Bitcoiner "purists". Otherwise y'all are gonna end up like Bcash. Sats will be the new Bitcoin.
Got it, and I’ll be sure to price my groceries in mBTC and μBTC while I’m at it. You’re proving my point... The second people need a glossary to understand Bitcoin pricing, the average user walks away.
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You don't have to be an influencer to figure out the problem with this argument. You're basically saying people are idiots and can't figure out multifaceted things (like dollars, quarters, dimes and pennies). It is not a complicated thing to understand that there is a finite number of pizzas, and that the pizza has slices (which we call slices rather than pizza). Well...it is some MMT folks, but the rest of the people get it. You're throwing out the hard money argument. Meanwhile, what we'd really like you to do is have every cash app terminal accept bitcoin. But it seems like you want to argue over this rather that do that.
For some time I've feared myself becoming a Jack fanboy, because I agreed with everything that came from Jack. But on the bits/sats, me and Jack disagree. Good to see.
Cool to see Phoenix Wallet has bits as an option. I don’t see a problem with listing bits as an option on more wallets and letting the people decide. Accumulating bits of a bitcoin also makes sense. The condescending attitude in the BTC community is wild to see.
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Clementw 8 months ago
Maybe we should teach real value first… before debating units?
Aside from the very strange choice to include 13 places after the decimal in the Sats Exchange Rate, this is perfectly clear. Currently it costs about 35,000 Sats to buy a meal at stake and shake. Gotta hope that's a meal for two or three. I don't see how we need to bring in subset values like microsats, as you say above, until they matter. And I don't see how changing the name to bitcoins or bits makes any difference at all. It might have been a better choice 10-12 years ago, but now it's just confusing, I think. I don't think it solves any problems. The only problem it tries to solve is unit bias, but it makes that more confusing as well, because now we have to explain that there aren't really more units. image
Even your memes are corpo trash. Looks like something you had an intern make for you. "'Sats are the standard' spray." Thanks for clarifying it's a spray, the picture confused my simple plebian mind.
I appreciate your humor, jack. But 1 bitcoin = 100,000,000 bitcoins is a mess, and it will only make things more confusing. This will only make people feel that Bitcoin is starting to inflate in terms of units. Because Bitcoin has 210 trillion bitcoins. Sats are not only units and commemorations, but also a consensus born naturally by the Bitcoin community. Respect Satoshi Nakamoto.🫡
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Gregor 8 months ago
Bits still look like the simplest option Then again I would also call zaps charges
Respectfully disagree. Renaming Sats is akin to remove historical statues. Destructive to the movement and the truth of its historical roots.
I see we've retreated back to the "Bits" stage of the bait and switch. Well that's some form of progress I guess. Sincerely, Jack: Just start calling them bits. Bits is fine. Bits is admittedly catchier than sats for the newcomer. You'll call them bits, that guy will call them sats, some new girl will call them beanies or bees and the overwhelming majority of people will naturally intuit what is meant. You get to solve your imaginary decimal problem (imaginary because sats). It could have hundreds of potential names and that would still work. You can call dollars bucks, bones, clams. You can call one hundred dollars hundos, Benjamins. You can say 10 Large. You can say 12 Mill. The one rule you cannot break —it would be marketing and PR suicide to break— is to call pennies dollars, to call dollars a million dollars, or any imaginable iteration of this pattern. Decentralization is the only thing separating BTC from the rest of the pack. Pushing people around with the "definitely not the right word" shtick, peddling in deceptive arguments. All bad for perception. All bad for adoption. Word of the day: image
Loving the replies! Nostr is so decentralised that even big names like Jack get called out for their stupid takes and they have to take it. On X Elon would have shadowbanned half his critics by now or changed the algo to benefit his argument. View quoted note →
Bit = 100 sats I'm happy for people to use whatever they prefer. We are just not ok with a couple of guys deciding for us what a word, that already exists and we already use, means.
That’s all fair. All I’m saying on my side is, a popular wallet has the option to have bits. Just have it as an option to choose. Default sats but if people want to change to bits or btc, give them the option to do so.
The problem of adoption is certainly not solved by changing the terminology of the value of satoshi in bitcoin. But when it occurred to you did you drink? 1 ₿ = 1 ₿ nevent1qqsgjzj7ceaq3qzvn66yqnkn2zzr8vsf24kx07scqq6ghhpncazpjegpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhg3g7kpt
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Lucas M 8 months ago
I love when hypocrites don't believe they are one.
This is just a distraction so you do not realize: Monero is the real Bitcoin.
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rebeca89 8 months ago
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No. Idc what the heck you guys call it… my friends literally referred to them by their rounded float integer (and still do to this day) and we do that because it’s cross compatible… math, the same in every language What we’re trying to do is figure out a way to define a unit of weight which is bitcoin We invested a unit and we need agreeable terms for it so that when Jack Dorsey implements a point of sale system in LA and I implement a point of sale system in Chicago we know what the hell eachother are talking about so we can regurgitate it to the accountants and retail business owners who will expect us to be able to define these things
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Lucas M 8 months ago
Do you not get it? 1 sat is divisible into smaller fractions. Just like how 1 dollar is divisible into cents. Simple... right?
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Dylan 8 months ago
There is literally nothing wrong with the unit of sats, it’s all wealth subjectivity - You have wealth, so you want your bitcoin split into higher units to save you the burden. Some of us do not have the wealth like you, so sats can actually be economically empowering for us. Makes us feel like we are accumulating a lot of future wealth Classic humans trying to change something that doesn’t need fixing When bitcoin hits 1M, 1 sat = 1 cent. I don’t see why your ‘bit’ agenda is being pushed so hard
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frankypoop 8 months ago
first you get the bits, then you get the tits
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Benking 8 months ago
A Satoshi is the smallest divisible unit of Bitcoin on the base layer (Layer 1). One Bitcoin is equal to 100,000,000 Satoshis, and you cannot go smaller than a Satoshi on the Bitcoin blockchain itself—this is hardcoded into the protocol. Layer 1 (Base Layer) • Minimum unit: 1 Satoshi (0.00000001 BTC) • Not infinitely divisible — any smaller division would require a protocol-level change (which would be extremely difficult and controversial). ⸻ Layer 2 (e.g., Lightning Network) On Layer 2, things are more flexible. Some L2 protocols may represent or use fractions of a Satoshi in their internal accounting: • The Lightning Network, for example, allows the use of millisatoshis (msat) — where: • 1 sat = 1,000 msat • This enables finer granularity for routing fees and payments. So while the base layer is not infinitely divisible, Layer 2 solutions can allow sub-satoshi units through their own internal systems.
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Dhikroh 8 months ago
Sats makes Bitcoin. It’s Bitcoin.
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Eze Chijiuka 8 months ago
Hi Jack! You're a great person and I have always taken inspiration from you. Want to be better than you someday. 🙏 I would love to connect.
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The name doesn’t matter, it’s a lack of coordinated marketing and advertising to get people to understand the concept imo
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Deleted Account 8 months ago
think about it. 1 btc=1 sat . no wonder I felt so rich last night having 100 bitcoin😂 .
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Deleted Account 8 months ago
I think confusing for some people who never knew crypto . but even in the wealthy country like Switzerland who have mass adaption , still they kids at school doesn't know how to convert the value of 1 bitcoin into sats . lets say 1 bitcoin = 1.000.000.000 sats.
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Jesus. Now #nostr is arguing about sats or bits? 🙃 I hate to break it to yall folks building the future but it's not bitcoins name or sats that's stopping folks from bitcoin adoption. It's the fact 70% of Americans live check to check while your clapping for government and businesses to stack bitcoin before them while they already can't afford basic bills due to the governments fiat system. We don't have the money to be into bitcoin, let alone pay our bills just to live. Inflation prices are up forever Laura. And the mass of people cant learn creating more value faster than they are printing and devaluing the money. If you want others to be into bitcoin. They have to be able to afford to save first. Pass down and teach others how your creating value if you want others into bitcoin. 90% of jobs can be learnt if someone shows them how to do it.
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