isolabell.art 🎨 on Nostr: To say that only 21 million Bitcoins exist is misleading. The truth is that ...
To say that only 21 million Bitcoins exist is misleading.
The truth is that 2,100,000,000,000,000 units of Bitcoin (perhaps 2.1 quadrillion sounds better) exist.
A currency designed to be scarce but not for the few, a currency that is divisible and accessible to all, almost 260,000 Bitcoins for every human being.
To call them sats is confusing: it sounds like something else, an undervalue.
Better to call them what they are: Bitcoin.
Even a single unit is Bitcoin.
A new mindset starts with a new language.
#my2bitcoin
Yes of course, Satoshi must have woken up one morning thinking, 'They're going to call pennies sats, in my honor!' - spoiler: no.
Satoshi would never have called bitcoin cents sats. Too much vanity, too much branding. He was aiming for protocol, not worship.
Calling them sats is like putting a signature on a work that was meant to remain anonymous.
#my2bitcoins
Published at
2025-05-17 06:47:00Event JSON
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