From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org>
To: Amine Chakak <aminechakak@gmail.com>,
Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Symbol for satoshi
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 23:35:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAS2fgQtfq_4QL8-N8y8Z8y-dBOWQVT7_DPXdZJfsQTjvaaoUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACSX50GZ8w3f9WkNg0DRBUTA6Kbrn=-+H2W0ynLcsdgoUO04PQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:32 AM Amine Chakak via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> The idea has been floated around to switch to satoshi as a base unit.
If Satoshi wanted the currency units named after him, he would simply
have done it. I think this behaviour seems creepy and is harmful to
Bitcoin.
> The lightning network uses satoshis as a base unit.
It absolutely does not. Lightning uses units of 10 picobitcoin (1e-11
btc), which is significantly smaller.
> Pleas let me know if it would be appropriate to write a BIP for it.
Please don't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-06 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-23 22:10 [bitcoin-dev] BIP - Symbol for satoshi Amine Chakak
2019-03-06 23:35 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2019-03-06 23:59 ` Amine Chakak
2019-03-07 10:57 ` Tamas Blummer
2019-03-07 18:10 ` Federico Tenga
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