Thank you for the answer. On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 18:36, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:32 AM Amine Chakak via bitcoin-dev > wrote: > > The idea has been floated around to switch to satoshi as a base unit. > > If Satoshi wanted the currency units named after him, he would simply > have done it. I think this behaviour seems creepy and is harmful to > Bitcoin. > > > The lightning network uses satoshis as a base unit. > > It absolutely does not. Lightning uses units of 10 picobitcoin (1e-11 > btc), which is significantly smaller. > > > Pleas let me know if it would be appropriate to write a BIP for it. > > Please don't. >