Eugen Leitl [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-11-15 📝 Original message:On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2013-11-15
📝 Original message:On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 05:53:16PM -0500, Alan Reiner wrote:
> I really like the XBT idea. It makes a lot of sense to match the ISO

I really don't. Just use the SI prefixes.

> currency symbol (though the ISO guys will have to adjust the way they've
> defined the "XBT"). And I do agree that going right to uBTC and
> skipping mBTC makes sense, too.

The display units should be choosable by the user.

> I'd prefer them not be called "micro bitcoins." I really want to call
> them "microbes" ... but I'm not sure that has the right flavor for money

Why on earth?

> transfer :) "Please give me 872 microbes". Perhaps we just call them
> "bits." Or even "micros" or "microbits". As I write this, I realize
> there's probably 872 threads on the forums about this already...
>
> But we would want to promote a consistent term, to avoid further
> confusion when people use different names for the new unit. It's not
> guaranteed to be successful, but if we pick a good name, and build it
> into the interface on the first release pushing the new unit, we have a
> chance to make the transition even easier.

The reason SI prefixes were invented is exactly to preven that case.