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btw. None of Bitcoin Wallet's users complained about confusion because
of the mBTC switch. In contrast, I get many mails and questions if
exchange rates happen to differ by >10%.

I suspect nobody looks at the Bitcoin price. It's the amount in local
currency that matters to the users.


On 03/13/2014 02:40 PM, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Indeed. And users were crying for mBTC. Nobody was asking for µBTC.
> 
> I must admit I was not aware if this thread. I just watched other
> wallets and at some point decided its time to switch to mBTC.
> 
> 
> On 03/13/2014 02:31 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> The standard has become mBTC and that's what was adopted. It's too late
>> to try and sway this on a mailing list thread now.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Gary Rowe <g.rowe@froot.co.uk
>> <mailto:g.rowe@froot.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     The MultiBit HD view is that this is a locale-sensitive presentation
>>     issue. As a result we offer a simple configuration panel giving
>>     pretty much every possible combination: icon, m+icon,  μ+icon, BTC,
>>     mBTC,  μBTC, XBT, mXBT,  μXBT, sat along with settings for
>>     leading/trailing symbol, commas, spaces and points. This allows
>>     anyone to customise to meet their own needs beyond the offered default. 
>>
>>     We apply the NIST guidelines for representation of SI unit symbols
>>     (i.e no conversion to native language, no RTL giving icon+m etc).
>>
>>     Right now MultiBit HD is configured to use m+icon taken from the
>>     Font Awesome icon set. However reading earlier posts it seems
>>     that μ+icon is more sensible. 
>>
>>     Let us know what you'd like.
>>
>>     Links:
>>     m+icon screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/WCDoG
>>     Font Awesome icon: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/btc/
>>     NIST SI guidelines: http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec07.html
>>
>>
>>     On 13 March 2014 12:56, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com
>>     <mailto:jgarzik@bitpay.com>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>         On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Wendell <w@grabhive.com
>>         <mailto:w@grabhive.com>> wrote:
>>         > We're with uBTC too. Been waiting for the signal to do this,
>>         let's do it right after the fee system is improved.
>>         >
>>         > -wendell
>>         >
>>         > grabhive.com <http://grabhive.com> | twitter.com/hivewallet
>>         <http://twitter.com/hivewallet> | gpg: 6C0C9411
>>         >
>>         > On Nov 15, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>         >
>>         >> Go straight to uBTC. Humans and existing computer systems
>>         handle numbers to
>>         >> the left of the decimals just fine (HK Dollars, Yen). The
>>         opposite is
>>         >> untrue (QuickBooks really does not like 3+ decimal places).
>>         >
>>
>>
>>
>>         --
>>         Jeff Garzik
>>         Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
>>         BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/
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