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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 7 Sep 2021 \ parent \ on: Suggestion: Formatting BTC prices as 0.00'000'123 BTC bitcoin
Which aspect do you find the most confusing? Is it the fact that after decimal point there are only two zeroes?
The test that I tried doing on myself is "without looking it up, can I buy a beer for 0.0001 BTC?"
I already have some feel on sats that couple thousand sats is around a dollar, but the number above makes it quite hard to figure out how many sats is that.
If I use the format with padding, "0.00'010'000 BTC", then I'm able to guess that yea, that should be just about enough to get a beer at a bar. For smaller amounts like this it would be probably better to have just "10k sats", but then for amounts around $1000 I think this format can help.
Just don't strip away the decimals (even if they're all 0s) and then it's pretty straightforward: "A beer costs 0.00010000 Bitcoin"
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