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Mitch | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 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.
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bob | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.
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Mitch | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 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.