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The community has tried UI abstractions for 15 years, and they have all failed. Most people only know two things: Bitcoin and Sat. Relying on wallet developers to display mBTC, bits, or kSat creates fragmented standards dependent on localized software.
Money is fundamentally a psychological technology. Understanding Bitcoin is already complex for the masses, and forcing them to memorize scientific prefixes creates immediate cognitive friction. If Bitcoin is to be the global reserve currency, its unit of account must be universally simple, memorable, and globally standardized.
What Nah provides that a UI layer cannot is a finalized, unified global standard to simplify the transition from fiat to hard money. Fiat itself is a psychological problem—a chaotic world of fragmented, unstable units of account. If our alternative relies on fragmented, localized, and hard-to-pronounce UI workarounds, mass adoption will stall. We require a consensus asset that removes all psychological friction on the road to hard money, and that asset is Nah.
Linguistically, this is a natural evolution. The protocol was given to us by Satoshi Nakamoto. If we have the Sat, it is only logical to have the Nah. Based directly on the creator's name, Sat & Nah is a simple, memorable, and natively human nomenclature.
This establishes a dual-asset standard of absolute scarcity on the timechain, much like the historical relationship between silver and gold. Nah serves as the primary cognitive unit of account for daily pricing, while Sat acts as the underlying reserve used to pay miners to send Nah. Ultimately, Sat & Nah represents the cleanest, most definitive solution to the fiat problem.
also, 85.3 trillion is not arbitrary. we needed a number slightly smaller than $120 trillion (global m2), and the reverse fibonacci sequence is 21, 13, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1...
85.3 trillion became the ultimate choice because it:
• creates a slightly deflationary feeling as prices switch from fiat to hard money, as shown in the example in the OP
• is universally visually appealing and easy to remember
at genesis, we minted 148.3 trillion nahs. shortly after, we sent 63 trillion nahs into Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet, leaving exactly 85.3 trillion in circulation.
Most people are not accustomed to numbers as big as a trillion and for many people a 14 dollar toy is out of reach.
Trying to come up with new arbitrary units isn't going to fly, focus on advocating for new conventions that are power of 10 multiples of the satoshi.
For a 120 trillion market cap, embrace the micro-bitcoin (100 sats), which some folks are simply calling bits. Come up with a better simple name if need be. That toy will be a nice simple two bits. Fractions of this unit can be a bit-cent (1 SAT) or deci-bit (10 SAT), paralleling the use of dollars and cents.
A different unit size may make sense on the journey. At this point folks should be stacking milli-bits and deci-milibits and prices can be to the centi-millibit. Come up with better names. The toy costs ~2 deci-millibits today. The price of milibits is even easy to grasp when some people are using BTC units, just drop 3 zeros from those prices.
Counting to 2 is even easier than 10. I don't know how todays kids handle a toy that costs 14 of something. Maybe time to re-denominate the US dollar.