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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.