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From: Amine Chakak <aminechakak@gmail.com>
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Thank you for the answer.
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 18:36, Gregory Maxwell <greg@xiph.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:32 AM Amine Chakak via bitcoin-dev
> <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> 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.
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Thank you for the answer.=C2=A0<br></div><br><div class=3D=
"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 1=
8:36, Gregory Maxwell <<a href=3D"mailto:greg@xiph.org">greg@xiph.org</a=
>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px=
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Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:32 AM Amine Chakak via bitcoin-dev<br>
<<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target=3D"_bla=
nk">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> The idea has been floated around to switch to satoshi as a base unit.<=
br>
<br>
If Satoshi wanted the currency units named after him, he would simply<br>
have done it. I think this behaviour seems creepy and is harmful to<br>
Bitcoin.<br>
<br>
> The lightning network uses satoshis as a base unit.<br>
<br>
It absolutely does not. Lightning uses units of 10 picobitcoin (1e-11<br>
btc), which is significantly smaller.<br>
<br>
> Pleas let me know if it would be appropriate to write a BIP for it.<br=
>
<br>
Please don't.<br>
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