BitPay should use mBTC as well. Unless you can point to any major wallets, exchanges or price watching sites that use uBTC by default? I think it is highly optimistic to assume we'll need another 1000x shift any time soon. By now Bitcoin isn't obscure anymore. Lots of people have heard about it. Getting from $1 to $1000 was amazing, but it was possible through huge media coverage. Getting from $1000 to $1,000,000 would take massive adoption of the kind Bitcoin isn't ready for yet. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Based on this seeming consensus, BitPay was headed towards uBTC > internally, and hoped to coordinate messaging and rollout with others > in the community. Ah well, proceed apace, and Bitcoin Wallet will > catch up, I suppose. > > Multiple unit changes negatively impact users, but we are already there :/ > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Wladimir wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> > >> Resurrecting this topic. Bitcoin Wallet moved to mBTC several weeks > >> ago, which was disappointing -- it sounded like the consensus was > >> uBTC, and moving to uBTC later --which will happen-- may result in > >> additional user confusion, thanks to yet another decimal place > >> transition. > > > > > > I've kind of given up getting any consensus about this, or even getting > > people to care. > > > > Everyone agrees that a decimal shift would be good, but it's the same > boring > > shed painting discussion every time on how many decimals. In the end > nothing > > happens. > > > > I can't really blame Andreas for finally taking action and making the > change > > to mBTC. People in the community are familiar with mBTC because some > > exchanges and price sites used mBTC (at least for a while when >$1000), > also > > mBTC seems to be catching on on reddit etc. > > > > Moving to muBTC (which in itself would be better because it is the final > > unit change ever needed without hardfork) would require more coordinated > > education effort. > > > > Wladimir > > > > -- > Jeff Garzik > Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist > BitPay, Inc. https://bitpay.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >