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โ†ฉ replying to jack
i canโ€™t accept. how do u see a whole bitcoin? i really wanna know. or lets just do-away with 100,000,000 altogether? asking it only feels like restart for those who didnโ€™t buy bitcoin at a dollar. OR u must be thinking a dollar is a dollar whether its 100 thousand or just 2. shouldnโ€™t change names just because we want fractionalize it. damn u got me thinking. i donโ€™t wanna like it so stop. lol.
โ†ฉ replying to jack
Except they're not Bitcoins. Lemme ask you is there $100 in 1 Dollar? Sats are the standard. Change it back and keep this train going. No one asked for this. No one uses this. Just you. You just unilaterally decided it. I'm not saying you don't have the right. It's your company. By all means do as you please. But this is confusing as hell and does not clarify or distinguish anything.
โ†ฉ replying to Comte de Sats Germain
It also has the advantage of being in the available unicode set on most machines (because it's a symbol for the Thai Baht, which curiously is divided into 100 "satang"...) The original โ‚ฟ started off as an appropriation of the เธฟ until a proposal was accepted to add โ‚ฟ to unicode:
Thai baht - Wikipedia
 So we'd just be repeating this process for the lowercase for sats :)
โ†ฉ replying to OceanSlim
The Thai Baht เธฟ was originally used as the Bitcoin symbol until โ‚ฟ was added to Unicode. We can repeat a similar process, temporarily appropriating ฦ€ until Unicode adds a lowercase b with a vertical stroke.
vinney...axkl's avatar vinney...axkl
It also has the advantage of being in the available unicode set on most machines (because it's a symbol for the Thai Baht, which curiously is divided into 100 "satang"...) The original โ‚ฟ started off as an appropriation of the เธฟ until a proposal was accepted to add โ‚ฟ to unicode:
Thai baht - Wikipedia
 So we'd just be repeating this process for the lowercase for sats :)
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โ†ฉ replying to vinney...axkl
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.
โ†ฉ replying to YODL
right, its just "the thing" because people liked it. they might also like the "b" - maybe more? honestly, the "call sats 'bitcoin'" crowd is powerful and influential (especially with Square now) so just practically an alternative proposal that is going to have a chance can't ignore their success and try to do something else entirely - it probably needs to be a kind of concilitory response to the ground they've already gained. hence the 'b'. "we get it, you're winning. will you compromise and at least just not use the uppercase 'B'? we can agree to that compromise". its like that.
โ†ฉ replying to npub12kj9...g5ew
2. ETH uses ฮž . 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)
โ†ฉ replying to vinney...axkl
I thought the ฯŸ are bitcoin (lol I have lightning bolt saved as keyboard thing for word sats) thing was just a troll. It's silly imo, but don't care too much. I like bits too, since playing a little poker recently where that denomination of chips made the most sense. The kebab symbol is overly complex and probably got upvoted because it felt like more impact per vote. Who wants to vote for boring "b"
โ†ฉ replying to vinney...axkl
I'm just saying if we're making it all up, you can't pretend like lower casing is some kind of well-known convention for currency subunits, when it really isn't. I get the rationalle of it, but it's not convincing. A b will cause more confusion, because it's unclear what it stands for? "Bits"? "Bats"? Sats are absolutely not bitcoins (boo BIP-177 ๐Ÿ‘Ž), and the symbol for it shouldn't even hint that way. Besides, we have a symbol for sats, and it's an interesting, beautiful, meaningful and unique one. ๐Ÿ˜
โ†ฉ replying to jack
You literally donโ€™t explain what a Satoshi is anywhere in your FAQ. The only place you mention a Satoshi is on the minimum withdrawal fee. Youโ€™re a $10B company. An unpaid intern could run a single query on google analytics and give you this answer. Yโ€™all are high on your own farts over there and going to make 20-50 Bitcoin teams back track and update language because your team hasnโ€™t done their job properly. True story.
This whole discussion on 'are those fractions of a bitcoin called bits, sats or just bitcoin' I get it for the newbies, 'Satoshi's are cents?' hmm. 'Is is not some other crypto coin?' Bits sounds most sensible to me and sats feels nostalgic, but bitcoins? ๐Ÿคจ I image only some whale hodler some day might by accident send me 2000 bitcoin thinking its 2000 sats/bits. Wouldn't that be horrible.
โ†ฉ replying to Comte de Sats Germain
So back to cents for its sounds a bit like sats and whenever those smaller units come into play we call then 'naks' from Nakamoto. Or is there any nice bit(there it is again) of the name Nakamoto to take that flows well, sounds fitting for the world to use? Nakas, moto, kamotos? In a century a coffee may be 20 naks, a night out with the misses, some 5 star wine and dine makes you spend 1 sat and 300 kamotos?