[Bitcoin-development] "bits": Unit of account

[Justin A]

<delurk>

What about "ubit", pronounced "YOU-bit", representing 1e-6 bitcoin? Easy to
say, tied in a visual way to the metric micro, leaves the required 2
decimal places for the marginally numerate.. What more could one want?

</delurk>

Also, hi. My first post; plan to get involved over the southern hemisphere
winter if I can learn enough.
On Apr 20, 2014 4:32 PM, "Mike Caldwell" <mcaldwell at swipeclock.com> wrote:

> By culturally neutral I mean we avoid deliberately invoking a cultural
> reference in the name.  For example "satoshi" would be a reference to
> Japanese culture just for being a common Japanese name regardless of who
> Satoshi turns out to be.
>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:20 PM, "Christophe Biocca" <
> christophe.biocca at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Culturally neutral? "bit" in French phonetically collides with slang
> > for phallus ("bitte", with a silent "e"). Apparently it means "louse"
> > in Turkish as well.
> >
> > Not that this really would be avoidable with any short word (all the
> > short possible words are usually taken), but it's not neutral.
> >
> >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Oliver Egginger <bitcoin at olivere.de>
> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> just my two 'cents':
> >>
> >> Terms arises by itself. Just as most people speak of coins when they
> >> mean bitcoins. I do not see that bitcoin is currently in common use
> >> except for speculation. Therefore no term for smaller units has
> >> established yet. No problem in my eyes. Time will tell.
> >>
> >> - oliver
> >>
> >>
> >>
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