rich1.0npub1tjephawh7fdf6358jufuh5eyxwauzrjqa7qn50pglee4tayc2ntqcjtl6rhttps://nostr.ae/npub1tjephawh7fdf6358jufuh5eyxwauzrjqa7qn50pglee4tayc2ntqcjtl6rnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2014-04-20 📝 Original message:I told him specifically to bring it here (on a pull request for Bitcoin Core), as there is no point in making such convention changes to just one client. I wasn't aware of any discussion about the "bits" proposal here before. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Tamas Blummer <tamas at bitsofproof.com> wrote: > People on this list are mostly engineers who have no problem dealing with > magnitudes and have rather limited empathy for people who have a problem > with them. > They also tend to think, that because they invented money 2.0 they would not > need to care of finance's or people's current customs. > > The importance of their decisions in these questions will fade as people > already use wallets other than the core. > > Bring this particular discussion elsewhere, to the wallet developer. > > BTW the topic was discussed here several times, you have my support and Jeff > Garzik's. > > Regards, > > Tamas Blummer > http://bitsofproof.com > > On 20.04.2014, at 15:15, Rob Golding <rob.golding at astutium.com> wrote: > > The average person is not going to be confident that the prefix they > are using is the correct one, > > > The use of any 'prefix' is one of choice and entirely unnecessary, and there > are already established 'divisions' in u/mBTC for those that feel they need > to use such things. > > people WILL send 1000x more or less than > intended if we go down this road, > > > Exceptionally unlikely - I deal every day with currencies with 0, 2 and 3 > dp's in amount ranging from 'under 1 whole unit' to tens of thousands - Not > once in 20 years has anyone ever 'sent' more or less than intended - oh, > they've 'intended' to underpay just fine, but never *unintended*. > > I propose that users are offered a preference to denominate the > Bitcoin currency in a unit called a bit. Where one bitcoin (BTC) > equals one million bits (bits) and one bit equals 100 satoshis. > > > I propose that for people unable to understand what a bitcoin is, they can > just use satoshi's and drop this entire proposal. > > Rob > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >