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It’s not hard to understand but it’s an extra step for many future people who just need to get paid in Bitcoin and when they get it will move on with their day.

It would be the same thing with sats. Bitcoin must be a difficult thing to achieve. A bit like having 1 million dollars. Who has 1 ₿ now is sweaty. It's right that the same process is done by new people if they don't understand the true value

What we call sats will be called Bitcoin.

Do you think these billions of people will talk about mempools and other technical parts of the protocol? You have rice, I want rice, you want bitcoin, I send you bitcoin, we move on with our day. They might still be sats, but most people have other things to worry about.

Saying the words “fiat” and “Big Tech” doesn’t change human behavior of people who are too busy to care that the bitcoin they received are also called sats. They are intelligent people who have more important or urgent things to deal with.

Saying the words "human behavior" or "intelligent people" doesn't change bitcoin's behavior. Many have learned this lesson. You'll learn it too.

You seem as if you’d like to have a different discussion. Think about all the people in your life who use the incorrect technical term for things and roll their eyes when you correct them. It has nothing to do with their level of intelligence, they have other things they focus on.

You're digressing. People will just call anything smaller than a bitcoin sats. It's really not that complicated.

Again, I think they will not want to deal with learning a second term because they have other really important things in their life that they’re also trying to learn about. To use sats, they have to hear Bitcoin. I think for many people, the learning will stop at Bitcoin and sats won’t have a chance to permeate.

In better times, people were embarrassed not to know the right terms. Now everyone is screaming "customer experience" and "inclusivity" and whatnot. Thank God for bitcoin, because in a bitcoin future, you work on understanding and naming things correctly, or you're just #hfsp It's not that you're wrong. It's just that you're working from different premises, and I think those premises are wrong because bitcoin dgaf.

Okay so they don’t. Fuck em.

Bitcoin dgaf. People will call it whatever they want. Both things can be true.

I don’t think doing that to them will change their behavior

It depends

Yes and I bet they’ll call the integers after the decimal point sats. Well let’s wait and see

This is dumb. Dollars, cents, etc. It's all been said. Sats are the standard.

I agree. I’m just saying that given the trend of mainstream’s adoption of technical terms, I think sats fade over time in the lexicon

"Sats" isn't a technical term. It's a relatively widely name for smaller dinominations of bitcoin in homage of the creator(s). There are a lot of bitcoiners who have minimal technical skills (myself included) who understand this at face value without more than a glance.

Hence my original post

We all love sats. Long term I think it becomes a fun term that all the early folks toss around

Correct, that’s my entire point. We will say sats. But when billions of people show up, they will hear “bitcoin” and see numbers in their app, and that’ll be it. Sats will be a fringe term.