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On Apr 21, 2014 3:37 AM, "Un Ix" <<a href="mailto:slashdevnull@hotmail.com">slashdevnull@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Something tells me this would be reduced to a single syllable in common usage I.e. bit.</p>
<p dir="ltr">What units will be called colloquially is not something developers will determine. It will vary, depend on language and culture, and is not relevant to this discussion in my opinion.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It may well be that people in some geographic or language area will end up (or for a while) calling 1e-06 BTC "bits". That's fine, but using that as "official" name in software would be very strange and potentially confusing in my opinion. As mentioned by others, that would seem to me like calling dollars "bucks" in bank software. Nobody seems to have a problem with having colloquial names, but "US dollar" or "euro" are far less ambiguous than "bit". I think we need a more distinctive name.</p>
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Pieter<br>
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