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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:13:11 +0100
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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
To: Allen Piscitello <allen.piscitello@gmail.com>
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Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc
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>
> Even if a cup of coffee costs 3.12345 mBTC, that's a lot more annoying
> than 3123.45 uBTC.
>

This is subjective though. To me the first price looks like the price of a
cup of coffee (or I just mentally double it). The second looks like the
price of an expensive holiday.

If users really find this so terrible, merchants have a simple solution: do
the rounding before presenting the price. Then the price looks like "3.12
mBTC" which is sort of what I'd expect it to look like. But some wallets
already make digits >2dp smaller so visually you can get precision whilst
still looking similar to what you might expect (this is what Bitcoin Wallet
does).


> I haven't seen a single good argument for keeping it in mBTC (other than
> some people already did it).
>

That's the good argument!

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ckquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #c=
cc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">Even if a cup of coffee costs 3=
.12345 mBTC, that&#39;s a lot more annoying than 3123.45 uBTC.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is subjective though. To me the first=
 price looks like the price of a cup of coffee (or I just mentally double i=
t). The second looks like the price of an expensive holiday.</div><div>
<br></div><div>If users really find this so terrible, merchants have a simp=
le solution: do the rounding before presenting the price. Then the price lo=
oks like &quot;3.12 mBTC&quot; which is sort of what I&#39;d expect it to l=
ook like. But some wallets already make digits &gt;2dp smaller so visually =
you can get precision whilst still looking similar to what you might expect=
 (this is what Bitcoin Wallet does).</div>
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ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>I hav=
en&#39;t seen a single good argument for keeping it in mBTC (other than som=
e people already did it).</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That&#39;s the good argument!</div><=
/div></div></div>

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