rich1.0npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgydhttps://nostr.ae/npub17ty4mumkv43w8wtt0xsz2jypck0gvw0j8xrcg6tpea25z2nh7meqf4qgydnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2014-03-13 📝 Original message:> > Using milli- and micro- notation for currency units is also not very > well supported. Last time this thread was active, I believe there was a > suggestion to use 1 XBT == 1 uBTC. Unfortunately I think some people already started using XBT to mean the same as BTC (another ship that sailed: somehow Bhutan will have to live with it). So if some software started to redefine it to mean something else, that seems like a recipe for accidentally sending far too much or too little money by mistake. The whole area of symbols, denominations etc is a confusing mess right now, it opens up the potential for mistakes and makes Bitcoin look unprofessional. Part of the reason I don't want us to revisit this at the moment is we need to grab onto any consistency we can get. People want to think in terms of a single unit. BTC vs mBTC is already bad enough, it'd be easy to miss the denomination and do some sums wrong. Introducing a third unit, especially one that skips the intervening nanoBTC, seems like a way to make mistakes even more common! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140313/1238dc0f/attachment.html>