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Many people have great arguments to change the standard away from Sats but in the end Sats seems to be very sticky. IMO we need to embrace it as a standard as not to add even more confusion. But there should also be other alternatives in the settings. Bits should definitely be an alternative.
Sats are actually bitcoins But those with Adjustment Disorders like most older people with conservative values, and even younger ones with AS, HFA, or ASD have full-on adjustment disorders too and will react violently when faced with sudden, unwanted change so it's something to deal with, because only calmer minds make better decisions But bitcoins are literally, COINS The full amount should have been SATOSHI or to make it ungeneric-sounding, call it satomoto, satoshimo, whichever sounds nice
The term bitcoin would ideally be applied to a unit with a sane value. As it stands a lot of people think of bitcoin as expensive when that is a completely arbitrary valuation. Right now 1 sat is too small to be the standard unit, and 1 bitcoin is too big. I think Adam Back has the right idea and in the near future we'll be pricing bitcoin by the bit (0.00000100 btc) and this will eventually become the unit that laypeople mean when they say bitcoin. Sometime around the point that 1 sat == $0.01. It's a logical transition for people to think of sats as cents and bits as dollars.