BitPay should use mBTC as well. Unless you can point to any major wallets, exchanges or price watching sites that use uBTC by default?

I think it is highly optimistic to assume we'll need another 1000x shift any time soon. By now Bitcoin isn't obscure anymore. Lots of people have heard about it. Getting from $1 to $1000 was amazing, but it was possible through huge media coverage. Getting from $1000 to $1,000,000 would take massive adoption of the kind Bitcoin isn't ready for yet.



On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com> wrote:
<vendor hat: on>

Based on this seeming consensus, BitPay was headed towards uBTC
internally, and hoped to coordinate messaging and rollout with others
in the community.  Ah well, proceed apace, and Bitcoin Wallet will
catch up, I suppose.

Multiple unit changes negatively impact users, but we are already there :/


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@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.
>
>
> I've kind of given up getting any consensus about this, or even getting
> people to care.
>
> Everyone agrees that a decimal shift would be good, but it's the same boring
> shed painting discussion every time on how many decimals. In the end nothing
> happens.
>
> I can't really blame Andreas for finally taking action and making the change
> to mBTC. People in the community are familiar with mBTC because some
> exchanges and price sites used mBTC (at least for a while when >$1000), also
> mBTC seems to be catching on on reddit etc.
>
> Moving to muBTC (which in itself would be better because it is the final
> unit change ever needed without hardfork) would require more coordinated
> education effort.
>
> Wladimir



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Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/

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