It is highly unikely that non-engineers will adopt scientific notation or mili/nano/pico prefixes for money.
All common currencies either have no change or one that is 1/100 of the base unit. This is the convention that practically all existing finance software and non-Bitcoin related UI that deals with money assumes. Ignoring evident cultural preference and all pre-existenting finance related software is blatant Bitcoin engineering blindness. We already had a BIP for bits, which I support for above reasons. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0176.mediawiki Tamas Blummer > On Mar 7, 2019, at 00:35, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:32 AM Amine Chakak via bitcoin-dev > <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >> The idea has been floated around to switch to satoshi as a base unit. > > If Satoshi wanted the currency units named after him, he would simply > have done it. I think this behaviour seems creepy and is harmful to > Bitcoin. > >> The lightning network uses satoshis as a base unit. > > It absolutely does not. Lightning uses units of 10 picobitcoin (1e-11 > btc), which is significantly smaller. > >> Pleas let me know if it would be appropriate to write a BIP for it. > > Please don't. > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
