[Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc

Andreas Schildbach andreas at schildbach.de
Thu Mar 13 13:40:12 UTC 2014


Indeed. And users were crying for mBTC. Nobody was asking for µBTC.

I must admit I was not aware if this thread. I just watched other
wallets and at some point decided its time to switch to mBTC.


On 03/13/2014 02:31 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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 <http://grabhive.com> | twitter.com/hivewallet
>         <http://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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