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Drawing on analogues from national currencies, it's also possible to alleviate the confusion by switching currency symbols, e.g. to XBT or NBC (New Bitcoin). 1 XBC == 1 uBTC On 11/14/13 2:03 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Go straight to uBTC. Humans and existing computer systems handle > numbers to the left of the decimals just fine (HK Dollars, Yen). > The opposite is untrue (QuickBooks really does not like 3+ decimal > places). > > - Jeff > > On Nov 14, 2013 4:40 PM, "Mark Friedenbach" <m...@monetize.io > <mailto:m...@monetize.io>> wrote: > > For this reason I'm in favor of skipping mBTC and moving straight > to uBTC. Having eight, or even five decimal places is not intuitive > to the average user. Two decimal places is becoming standard for > new national currencies, and we wouldn't be too far from human > scale everyday numbers: 25.00uBTC ~= $0.01 currently. And I don't > think very many people on this list would consider bitcoin > overvalued in the long term perspective. > > Better to go through a confusing renumbering only once. > > Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJShU9YAAoJEAdzVfsmodw4svUP/1THaWdSoy+/J1Z4QcuoEC5T Lxyu5uN6d1TRb/fxZ1VQI+FJgRjJTT2zIBrk9lJHBuvYy6Gq6JUjHQZHbC7lhr9Q nDwM76LFOWPR0PDC9JLIeiDbkIimrARUjrKIMUJYCpQWHfLOZssWjDmLhAucAYcF gmObw+9M2fR7Xh7X2qOQt+xXWyAeeqCur2EClV+xNnhcyQXyXl2R9qdCF5ugy7k1 nmHhMYap7q8TP2yrH/SloEGor56DICamVNnB91HOiN/QY9fZD0To6+RTJDsu/CR3 01hRS+5JNVEQIBQ7cCxAO7kRxcxf9aDabEdS24r/alpuMg7/32wz/EqCSCqQtSnq MlvKifF5Bh+Y0hSNbNKdFMSes6fOhoLkl87ugKCkH8FQjI8rev3ke79tGKK92m01 kmSBuzazwjVDNS/wwhPunkaiBaEAtzo1VCilibjjqLQEWdUBdsawsdlLDYb13mQD xPxDTKB2TR33Iri+mvdAai8qrLGHJUDDLVs5N0uK+tHbxqgznCkQ3NSINtuwFRLk L1Usvr3XNSc0Jh7lHfPP+voE1TAYsDD3DXmT0eAmIXXzo1E4J2UKzhI+M7kJM8M9 qSzbC3TExmijd9LrOYdVX3Ab+LP6XDSPym4rBb0mAH8DOxKmFOYrNIwURnmGwJFA jZi0WrHXHpg3ThXP8Jdj =J7x7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
