1. Renaming 'sats' to 'bitcoins'
What do you think about this idea?
What would be the benefits/downsides?
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Sats sounds good.
What about βbitsβ. 1 bitcoin is 100,000,000 bits
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.
Stop it
It's sats, the community has decided. You could go with "bitcoinSATS" for the incoming n00bs. Depends why and where you want to change it though.
I don't like this idea, make confusion. Only bitcoin and satoshi.
Sats are standard, don't touch it.
pack that shit in.
You can do whatever you want but I am calling them sats.
Why?
What would you call a bitcoin if sats are renamed bitcoins
Why do we even keep discussing this
Please don't. I use your software to onboard newbies. I don't need them thinking they are sending 21 bitcoins to my goats. Sats is it. You'll only introduce noise into the bitcoin memetic space and dilute your own brand in the process.
Juts put a Sats to Bitcoin converter...
Just put a Sats to dollar/euro/x converter...
That's it. Everybody will understand. "Sats" are the Lightning Network soul. Don't change the name.
Nah. Sats is sats. Stack sats. Send sats.
Don't mess with sats. π
You take away my sats, you are dead to me, I would sooner lay you into this barren earth then entertain your folly for a moment longer. You will not have Bitcoin, you will not have bits, you will have sats!
Thats final
Sats are the standard. Stay humble and stack them. Let this meme continue to catch on please.
Yours faithfully,
A Humble Sat-Stacker
Stupid. No need to explain.
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Sats are fine, just keep stacking them...
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"sats are confusing"
"what would be less confusing is if we revalued an existing unit that the world has already accepted"
lmfao insane
sats are easy since you can use metric suffix easily.
eg. 1k sat
Bits. And use the kebab π
Sats is a dumb name, IMO, but it follows what we already know, such as dollars and cents. We've been able to figure that out.
Zaps the standard.
i have a theoretical question tho, what if one day someone created an nip for l-btc donation / tipping on nostr. how should we call it then? haha

Great name.
Satoshi = whole BTC
Sats = little BTC
It won't be a Zap. Hmm. A Splash? π¦
yeah that sounds cool tbh
"yo, did you zap or splash me?"
totally an understandable theoretical communication on Nostr π€£.
Some men just want to watch the world burns
Would make #walletofsatoshi a fraud instantly because everybody new would think they can get Bitcoin for free.
That would be the right answer to your question.
How would that be than on #NOSTR
Like:
"Look dudes, @ODELL zapped me 42 bitcoins!"
come on @Wallet of Satoshi
I like your App
but...
seriously???
Bad idea. It is a homage to the creator and sending .00000001 bitcoin to someone is stupid
No no no
Bad idea...
ATROCIOUS.
Singular "bitcoin" for the whole unit. "bitcoins" is Boomer shit no matter which level of denomination we're talking about.
Plural "sats" for the fractional unit. It just sounds cool.
bitcoins is fine, donβt be a zoomer.
"It's raining, there's waters on my window."
"Ah, I love hiking, breathe in those fresh airs!"
"Ug, the beach, I have sands in my shoes."
that must have broken you, to write those three sentences
Peak development ideas in custodial lightning wallet land.
Top fucking minds.
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if this post by WoS doesnt end up trending on primal for good trolling then it will be clear that primal trends are as liberated as those on X
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No Sir.
1BTC = 1BTC
1BTC > 1sat
π
If this is 1...
What is 2??! π€π€£
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
they're already having it with dollars => sats
Nice troll guys
highly regarded
Is this a joke?
In case not, no!! definitely not... way too confusing!
imo Good idea in long term. there is no such thing as a whole bitcoin
but I like sats more, it sounds cool and very cypherpunk
No benefits. Only downsides. Why even have this idea?
I think people will look at Bitcoiners with confusion when they say "1 whole bitcoin = 100 million bitcoins"
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.
Hell no! is what I think.
We don't need MORE confusion.
We have enough with the "bitcoin the asset" and "Bitcoin the network" nonsense.
sats are sats - bitcoins are bitcoins so big hell no from urantia
That ship has sailed IMHO. Sats it is.
Nostr and Lightning is the reason I dig Sats as a unit.
sats is better. in sankrit , sat mean truth, unchangeable..
The downside is no one can tell how much Bitcoin you are talking about. "Would you be interested in selling your car for two bitcoins?" The scammers will have so much fun with your idea.
I dig it. one tenth of any amount of gold is still gold. why would the same standard not apply to bitcoin?
