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author | Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> | 2014-03-13 11:17:53 -0500 |
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committer | bitcoindev <bitcoindev@gnusha.org> | 2014-03-13 16:18:08 +0000 |
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc
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If you wanted a big push for uBTC, then would +> have been the time. Though given that it'd have made lots of normal +> balances incredibly huge, perhaps it's a good thing that didn't happen. +> Also "milli" is a unit people encounter in daily life whereas micro isn't. +> Is it milli / micro / nano or milli / nano / micro? I bet a lot of people +> would get that wrong. + +I think the ship of hand-wavy, data-free logic sailed with +'money supply == 21 million', so why not enjoy the ride? If we care about +real people and real use cases, then let's talk about indexing the money +supply to some blockchain-observable value and add demurrage instead of +of bikeshedding the color of the latest coat of paint. + +> +> If you have to export to financial packages that can't handle fractional +> pennies, then by all means represent prices in whatever units you like for +> that purpose, but in software designed for ordinary people in everyday life +> mBTC is a pretty good fit. +> +> Besides, fractional pennies crop up in existing currencies too (the famous +> Verizon Math episode showed this), so if a financial package insists on +> rounding to 2dp then I guess it may sometimes do the wrong thing in some +> business cases already. +> +> Fundamentally, more than two decimal places tends to violate the +> > Principle Of Least Astonishment with many humans, and as a result, +> > popular software systems have been written with that assumption. +> +> +> Lots of people use currencies that don't have any fractional components at +> all ! So perhaps all prices should be denominated in satoshis to ensure +> that they're not surprised :) + +I'm surprised every time I pull up to a gas pump and the price is 3.249999 +per gallon. But I don't really care what the price is, as long as there's +an e85 pump. If I could pay at the pump with bitcoin, I wouldn't even look +at the price, I'd only care if my tank got filled up or if I have to drive +slower to get better mileage. + +Hell, I'd have an app that would tell me what gas station to go to that got +me the best miles per bitcoin based on where I actually wanted to go. + + |