{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1kf0ppcjaguxekg24yx6smgxlu73qn0k8lm0t2wrqc0scpl7u3sgsmf3f58","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1kf0ppcjaguxekg24yx6smgxlu73qn0k8lm0t2wrqc0scpl7u3sgsmf3f58","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-03-13\n📝 Original message:\u003cvendor hat: on\u003e\n\nBased on this seeming consensus, BitPay was headed towards uBTC\ninternally, and hoped to coordinate messaging and rollout with others\nin the community.  Ah well, proceed apace, and Bitcoin Wallet will\ncatch up, I suppose.\n\nMultiple unit changes negatively impact users, but we are already there :/\n\n\nOn Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Wladimir \u003claanwj at gmail.com\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\n\u003e On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jeff Garzik \u003cjgarzik at bitpay.com\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e Resurrecting this topic.  Bitcoin Wallet moved to mBTC several weeks\n\u003e\u003e ago, which was disappointing -- it sounded like the consensus was\n\u003e\u003e uBTC, and moving to uBTC later --which will happen-- may result in\n\u003e\u003e additional user confusion, thanks to yet another decimal place\n\u003e\u003e transition.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e I've kind of given up getting any consensus about this, or even getting\n\u003e people to care.\n\u003e\n\u003e Everyone agrees that a decimal shift would be good, but it's the same boring\n\u003e shed painting discussion every time on how many decimals. In the end nothing\n\u003e happens.\n\u003e\n\u003e I can't really blame Andreas for finally taking action and making the change\n\u003e to mBTC. People in the community are familiar with mBTC because some\n\u003e exchanges and price sites used mBTC (at least for a while when \u003e$1000), also\n\u003e mBTC seems to be catching on on reddit etc.\n\u003e\n\u003e Moving to muBTC (which in itself would be better because it is the final\n\u003e unit change ever needed without hardfork) would require more coordinated\n\u003e education effort.\n\u003e\n\u003e Wladimir\n\n\n\n-- \nJeff Garzik\nBitcoin core developer and open source evangelist\nBitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/"}