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Sure, calling 21,000 bitcoins instead of 21,000 satoshis will magically boost adoption. By that logic, we should start calling 21 cents “21,000 usd”... sounds so much more appealing, right? Sure, most people don't know what a satoshi is, but we are just being lazy as educators...
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I’ve been catching heat all day from the “sats forever” or “whole-coiner” diehards, but after multiple rounds of Discord drama, your take is honestly spot on. All the self-proclaimed Bitcoin “experts” fumbling just trying to figure out how many cents are in one satoshi “it’s 1 cent, it’s 0.1 of a cent, it’s 1/10 of a cent” etc etc– if that’s not proof the UX is busted, I don’t know what is. Decimals like “0.000038 BTC” and niche terms like “millibits” or “μBTC” aren’t helping normies ether; they’re creating friction that pushes everyday people away and convinces these same normies to stay locked in the fiat money system.
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Fuck all of this “easy onboarding talk” 👋 When visiting other countries the first few days people are confused by the difference in currency and always calculate into their own. But nobody gets to decide the other countries name for their currency and starts referring to it as “a 10th of my currency coin”. So the nobody despite their logic, influence or whatever will dictate how these decentralized nation will call its smallest denominator.
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Thanks for your take. Other than this thread posted by @jack , I haven’t peeped into anything else. I’m sure people are talking in circles and giving themselves a headache. 🥴 Honestly, I was waiting to follow up with more information. But I’ll go ahead and add it now. Part 2 of My Response: Creating a new denomination system is potential solution. But it is only a temporary solution and not a permanent fix. Why? Because the value of Bitcoin is volatile and not fixed. For those who want Bitcoin to increase to $1,000,000, it will change the value of a sat. And other denominations. As a result, the smallest denominations will be hard to fathom in everyday use. At this point, it’s too late to go back to the 1:1 system. The only exception is if everyone agrees to remove the valuation system from Bitcoin. Now who wants to go back to Bitcoin being $0.00? Are people ready to have *that* conversation? Since governments, investment companies, businesses, etc. have a financial stake in Bitcoin, are they willing to be ok with Bitcoin being $0.00. Since they will HODL, can Bitcoin even go down to $0.00? Probably not. I recall people were ecstatic when Bitcoin made it to $100k. And when I had some issues with it, I received a multitude of negative comments. 🤷‍♀️ So I kindly repeat, who wants Bitcoin to go back to being $0.00? As a reminder, the original intent of Bitcoin was to bypass financial institutions. But now we’re here. I’m an educator. I can pose these questions all day. Many of the Bitcoiners are overly passionate about Bitcoin. At times, too emotional and don’t think logically about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is founded in math. Math is rational, logical, and analytical. Some math concepts have fixed solutions. Bitcoin has a finite amount. 21 million. Once it became attached to something that is considered infinite (the US dollar because it can be printed to infinity), we now have a problem. Who can think of a logical solution to the problem? How can adoption be increased around the world? Is the term sats holding people back from adoption? Or are other things holding people back from adopting Bitcoin? If so, list them AND provide solutions. Math problems typically have solutions. Who can provide attainable solutions that can be reasonably implemented ? P.S. Answer carefully. Otherwise, you’ll give “them” justification to usher in stablecoins.
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People still call it Twitter. You can’t effectively rename things once they are out in the wild. Doesn’t matter if it’s “wrong”. (it’s not- “sats” is an emergent term that honors the creator) nevent1qqsrp3k4yl8tz6c9qlsv5pr8r2xf7a7hq6jj5mypmqw2ugjghy0490cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqeazfz
Fuck all of this “easy onboarding talk” 👋 When visiting other countries the first few days people are confused by the difference in currency and always calculate into their own. But nobody gets to decide the other countries name for their currency and starts referring to it as “a 10th of my currency coin”. So the nobody despite their logic, influence or whatever will dictate how these decentralized nation will call its smallest denominator.
Overthinking it… missing the forest for the trees. People don’t use Bitcoin or sats because it’s still not stupid easy to use for normal people and there’s still not enough merchant adoption. The name isn’t changing that, just education and risk takers do change it.
I disagree. I don't see a need to change anything. We don't need to encourage adoption with a terminology change, it's going to happen no matter what words are used for whatever. All this is doing is splitting the community and putting us against each other, when what we should be doing is aligning and working towards a common goal. Words are arbitrary, Jack. They are abstract descriptors for things based on language and culture. They are all open to interpretation, by default. Primarily, they are a distraction. Let's stop dividing and distracting ourselves. There's too much work to do. Unity in action trumps semantic squabbles.
The developing world sending remittances figured it out People living in hyperinflation figured it out Activists figured it out The corporations & sovereigns figured it out Kenyans using Tango figured it out Home miners figured it out Necessity leads to understanding
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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Reminds me of early Christianity. Every group want their own church. You're free to fork Bitcoin and start your own church and call everything whatever you want. But changing code won't make a difference, people will gravitate toward clients that make sense to them.
Strong disagree here. Biggest question, for me, is why now? Why is this argument, attempting to change something which has evolved over time through the community at large, happening at this moment in time? Just as a bigger discussion about op return is going on? Seems like obfuscation to me. Totally unnecessary. 21 million. That's the end of the matter as far as I'm concerned.
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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Below is a single fiat currency, and you're argument is that's far too much freedom for your decentralized alternative. You know, the one that prevents a small group of elites and insiders from altering peoples perception of money? Jack, your statist is showing again, bubba. image
My son & all his friends instantly got what a “sat” or a “satoshi” was when I said - it’s like Bitcoins cents - there is nothing about it that’s complicated to understand & it doesn’t need a rebrand 😂 what Bitcoin needs is real world companies & people using it - they will call it whatever it’s called.. when they use it.. the issue of not understanding.. and slow adoption has nothing to do with the name. nevent1qqsrp3k4yl8tz6c9qlsv5pr8r2xf7a7hq6jj5mypmqw2ugjghy0490cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqeazfz
Personally, I think the most irritating part of this is that this guy speaks as if he knows anything about the everyday person? He probably has more Sats than most people using NOSTR combined. Most of the time I like what Jack has to say, but this is a hard miss.
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sats is definitely the wrong term and is stopping everyday people from holding and spending bitcoin. i agree with steve’s points in this video.
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the history of US dollar sign 💲 is interesting in this context, as its most likely origin has nothing to do with the American dollar and much more likely with the Spanish pesos. This one was widely known in the general population and there adoption (So no greater big brain logic, just giving the common man what he wants) Perplexity: The dollar sign ($) is used in the United States because, when the U.S. established its own currency after independence, it modeled the new dollar on the widely used Spanish dollar (or peso), which had been the most common currency in the American colonies for over a century. The Spanish dollar’s symbol and value system were already deeply familiar to Americans, merchants, and the broader economy.
people have compared things like tailored suits, life stock and similar things to what ever they saved in for a long time. e.g. a suit would be 0.0243 B 2,430,000 sats Meaning many things people will buy have less symbols up until another 100x Let’s wait until the user base and adoption has at least 10x before trying to confuse everyone
Occam’s Razor. Perhaps A/B testing on large sample sizes might provide deeper insights into the complexities of global onboarding and what actually works. For example, micro and small vendors make up nearly 90% of global businesses and contribute almost half of global revenue, yet only 20% - 30% have adopted digital tools. From my experience they understand the value of money but do not yet appreciate the complexity of exchange. Bitcoin adoption sits at a moderate 4% of the global population after 16 years. We need to figure out what would help accelerate the s-curve