Amine Chakak [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2019-03-06 📝 Original message:Thank you for the answer. ...

📅 Original date posted:2019-03-06
📝 Original message:Thank you for the answer.

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 18:36, Gregory Maxwell <greg at xiph.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:32 AM Amine Chakak via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The idea has been floated around to switch to satoshi as a base unit.
>
> If Satoshi wanted the currency units named after him, he would simply
> have done it. I think this behaviour seems creepy and is harmful to
> Bitcoin.
>
> > The lightning network uses satoshis as a base unit.
>
> It absolutely does not. Lightning uses units of 10 picobitcoin (1e-11
> btc), which is significantly smaller.
>
> > Pleas let me know if it would be appropriate to write a BIP for it.
>
> Please don't.
>
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