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      11 months ago

      If you’re paying for small good (25-50$) you usually pay in “Satoshis” 0.00000001 BTC. If you convert it to dollars, 10 satoshis is 1 cent.

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      11 months ago

      Things are often measured in mBTC or µBTC for this exact reason.

      Just as you don’t measure the length of an ant in meters, you measure it in millimeters.

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      They should bring in subunits like an MMO. 1 bitcoin (118905USD) = 100 bitsilver 1 bitsilver (1189.05USD) = 100 bitcopper 1 bitcopper = 11.89USD

      It doesn’t even make any different to the number of bitcoin used, its just a more user friendly way of displaying it for small purchases.

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        This already exists. 1 bitcoin = 1,000 mBTC = 100,000,000 satoshi. The exchange rate as of writing is about 846 satoshis = 1 USD or 982 satoshis = 1 EUR. The current usage is thusly:

        • Transaction fees on the main network are measured in sats/B (satoshis per [virtual] byte [of transaction size]).
        • Transactions on the Lightning Network, a lower-fee instant payment network that runs on top of the ordinary Bitcoin network, are all denominated in respect to satoshis. So a payment on the Lightning Network is traditionally regarded as, for example, 50,000 satoshis rather than 0.5 mBTC or 0.0005 BTC. And the fee on that payment is usually in the range of 50-100 satoshis.
        • Goods sold on the Lightning Network are typically priced in satoshis.
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        11 months ago

        Transfer failed.

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      11 months ago

      If that’s the biggest complaint you have about it, it’s probably not that bad.

      I don’t mind Bitcoin itself, but I do hate NFTs and pump and dump scams, obviously

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        11 months ago

        Bitcoin is its own worst enemy. It’s deflationary, speculative, and largely interacted with by centralized entities. Those things means its unlikely to be successful as an actual currency; even one it hopes to be.

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      Monkey brain no like small numbers. Monkey brain like big numbers.

      But for real, Bitcoin was the first decentalized currency to solve the Byzantine Generals Problem. Its worth something because its transparent, unmutable, and the original digital currency. It was birthed via grassroot origins in depths of the housing crash. It calls out the Federal Reserve (and any other human institution that seeks to expand their money supply).

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      11 months ago

      It was far less valuable when it first started becoming trendy. 1 BTC for a pizza, or whatever. Now it’s turned into a hyperinflation wheelbarrow kind of situation.

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      11 months ago

      It’s one of the least bad things about it, and if not for approximately twelve thousand bad things about it, would be easily fixable.