- You are sending/receiving bitcoin, not “sats”
- The asset is bitcoin, the most well-know asset in the world, the symbol should be there
- Sats is very confusing if you’re new to bitcoin. Easy to confuse the asset and unit if you're new. Good to know you have bitcoin and learn more than think you have sats
- There is zero confusion even if you can’t keep pre/suffixes straight since there is a 100m difference in value (if there is then that’s a good problem to have)
- ₿ looks way better than “sats” and is already is a symbol that exists everywhere
Sats is one of the worst UX mistakes in bitcoin, so open to other ideas, just trying one out!
I dont know. Something tells me if people can understand dollars and cents they can understand bitcoin and satoshis. Not a perfect comparison obviously.
I may be overestimating.
Maybe but dollars have a 200 year head start... and you can express both with the $ symbol. why not express both with the ₿ symbol? the issue is the insane number of decimal places in bitcoin, so that is why i used the placement of the ₿ to denote unit.
Fair point for $ vs ₿.
I do think another issue worth talking about is the moving target of Bitcoins value, which to me is related to the number of decimals. This will have an impact long term and oddly makes ₿ make more sense to my eyes & brain.
At a price of $10 million USD in todays dollars 10 satoshis is 1 dollar. The question in my mind is when do more decimals become needed for daily transactions. If its not in our lifetime then ₿ still has some friction for me mentally. If its in our lifetime and there can be 1000.23 ₿ then I'm onboard(walk).
Tldr: the lack of decimals with satoshis prevents me from enjoying ₿ as the satoshi denomination.
I don't disagree with anything you just said, but I think the solution you're trying is potentially even more confusing. I don't have a better idea.
Yea not sure what the best solution is, but feels important to include the ₿ somewhere. We can also show the USD equivalent amount in the UI or let you toggle to sats. We'll test it out and share feedback.
Using doggie coin instead is a better idea imo
₿ for bitcoin $ for sats, the $ symbol is ours now
Stop thinking. I do it like everyone else
@boardwalk is the only thing with this confusing nonsense. Time has been invested into educating people that sats are fractions of a bitcoin and that they don’t have to buy the whole coin.
Doing it “your way” now just adds to the confusion.
Fwiw, this isn't exclusive to broadwalk
https://satsymbol.org/
oh wow, never saw this before! similar points, but they keep the ₿ at the front, I like it better at the end so its a little different. thx.
Yeah, putting it at the end is an interesting differentiation, maybe too subtle...
Also if the goal is to make people feel richer because big number:
Just use n₿ for nanobitcoin, this gives 10x more big number than sats
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