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Ok I’ll bite. What’s the BIP-177 argument for potential confusion around “bits” already being a unit of measurement for digital data?
It’s not uncommon to talk about bitcoin and bits in the same sentence. For example, “In Bitcoin, a private key is a single unsigned 256 bit integer.”
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