This is still a huge misunderstanding. There are a lot of people out there who think they need to buy a whole Bitcoin. More exchanges should introduce Sats as the standard. What you think?
Indeed. Sat is the standard.
I always setup my wallets in this way:
  • hodling wallets (onchain) display BTC unit
  • spending wallets (LN) display sats unit
  • BTC/LN node displays sats unit
https://www.pricedinbitcoin21.com/ is a good reference also to start thinking in sats and forget about fiat shit.
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Very nice SetUp Indeed!
I love pricedinbitcoin21. Truly amazing website to get a "feeling" for Sats as the standard unit of account.
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That's exactly how I see it. Exchanges have a duty to educate users about what sats are and to implement sats as a calculation unit, so users get familiar with it.
Shitcoin casinos won't do that because they only want to sell other things and their own scam token to their customers. That's why I support Bitcoin-only companies. Those are the really important players in the next couple of years for Bitcoin adoption.
By the way, you guys doing a great job!
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Thank you. We're trying to do our best to bring Bitcoin to as many people as possible.
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I really don't think it makes a difference. There is probably a little bit of retail money that doesn't enter bitcoin due to unit bias.
But is this money material? Would these people actually hodl or would they sell as soon as it dumps anyway? I'm skeptical
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Well, I know a lot of people who see the exchange price and think it's too expansive and buy "cheaper" coins. No one is looking at market cap.
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you mean market crap... https://coinmarketcrap.co/
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Haha... yes indeed.
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There's only 2 quadrillion 100 trillion sats.
Give everyone on earth 1 sat each and it becomes 2 quadrillion 92 trillion sats only
bitcoin is rare, sats are abundant
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Just because you divide a pizza into 16 pieces instead of 8 doesn't mean you have more pizza, right?
Satoshi Bitcoin 1 Satoshi 0.00000001 Bitcoin 10 Satoshi 0.00000010 Bitcoin 100 Satoshi 0.00000100 Bitcoin 1,000 Satoshi 0.00001000 Bitcoin 10,000 Satoshi 0.00010000 Bitcoin 100,000 Satoshi 0.00100000 Bitcoin 1,000,000 Satoshi 0.01000000 Bitcoin 10,000,000 Satoshi 0.10000000 Bitcoin 100,000,000 Satoshi 1.00000000 Bitcoin
Bitcoin is rare, so are sats. A single Bitcoin represents 100 million satoshis (1 BTC = 100,000,000 sats). Thus, there will only ever be 21 million bitcoin, and there will only ever be 2.1 quadrillion sats.
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True that your BTC will always be a fraction of the total supply. But like I said, everyone in the world could own 1 sat each & it would only take 80 bitcoin. Thus if everyone has the potential to own a small amount of bitcoin, it is not rare like beach front property, Lamborghini's or wholecoiners.
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Got it you and yea that's true. If people would use #Bitcoin to save and store their wealth, properties would be affordable again.
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It's a tough marketing challenge in many ways. User's need to understand the relationship of a Bitcoin to a Satoshi and that a sat is NOT a new coin/token/whatever.
US dollars to cents is the easiest way to explain it, at least in the west, but it isn't perfect.
Given there is no "Bitcoin Marketing Department" to create cute initiatives about this issue it is down to the exchanges (currently)... and the exchanges have ZERO incentive to do this.
The more exchanges can obfuscate and confuse things the better it is for them and their shitcoin casinos.
Lightning will likely be the best introduction to sats for the majority of users. One of those things that user's will learn as they get immersed in the product stack.
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You are so damn correct, Mate. All those altcoin casinos only try to sell their garbage coins and make a quick buck. However, more and more Bitcoin-only services are popping up, having Sats as their Standard.
We are also trying our best to explain bitcoin and sats to as many people as possible (https://21bitcoin.app/article/what-are-sats). Many also still think that they need to buy a whole bitcoin. It always reminds me how early we still are.
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