[Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

[Mike Hearn]

The standard has become mBTC and that's what was adopted. It's too late to
try and sway this on a mailing list thread now.


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Gary Rowe <g.rowe at froot.co.uk> wrote:

> The MultiBit HD view is that this is a locale-sensitive presentation
> issue. As a result we offer a simple configuration panel giving pretty much
> every possible combination: icon, m+icon,  μ+icon, BTC, mBTC,  μBTC, XBT,
> mXBT,  μXBT, sat along with settings for leading/trailing symbol, commas,
> spaces and points. This allows anyone to customise to meet their own needs
> beyond the offered default.
>
> We apply the NIST guidelines for representation of SI unit symbols (i.e no
> conversion to native language, no RTL giving icon+m etc).
>
> Right now MultiBit HD is configured to use m+icon taken from the Font
> Awesome icon set. However reading earlier posts it seems that μ+icon is
> more sensible.
>
> Let us know what you'd like.
>
> Links:
> m+icon screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/WCDoG
> Font Awesome icon: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/btc/
> NIST SI guidelines: http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec07.html
>
>
> On 13 March 2014 12:56, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at bitpay.com> wrote:
>
>> Resurrecting this topic.  Bitcoin Wallet moved to mBTC several weeks
>> ago, which was disappointing -- it sounded like the consensus was
>> uBTC, and moving to uBTC later --which will happen-- may result in
>> additional user confusion, thanks to yet another decimal place
>> transition.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Wendell <w at grabhive.com> wrote:
>> > We're with uBTC too. Been waiting for the signal to do this, let's do
>> it right after the fee system is improved.
>> >
>> > -wendell
>> >
>> > grabhive.com | twitter.com/hivewallet | gpg: 6C0C9411
>> >
>> > On Nov 15, 2013, at 6:03 AM, 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 Garzik
>> Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
>> BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/
>>
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