I don’t think this is being overblown at all. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—this is an attack on Bitcoin, and a serious one. It’s not about UI, decimals, or helping users. It’s about fundamentally altering the way Bitcoin is perceived—psychologically, economically, and memetically.
If we rename satoshis as “bitcoin,” we’re not simplifying—we’re redefining. We go from 21 million bitcoin to 2.1 quadrillion. And suddenly the price goes from $105,000 to $0.00105.
Now imagine explaining that to the world. Imagine trying to sell the idea of digital scarcity and hard money, while Bitcoin appears to have a higher supply than most memecoins. That’s not just confusion—it’s narrative collapse.
And the irony? Many of the loudest voices pushing this change claim to be maximalists. They fight memecoins by turning Bitcoin into one—on paper. A cheap, inflated, ultra-high-supply token indistinguishable from what we’ve spent years trying to distance ourselves from.
You say it’ll be a nothingburger in a week.
I say it will permanently fracture the mental model of the greatest monetary meme ever created.
21 million is not cosmetic. It’s the core.
You don’t throw that away just to sell the illusion that Bitcoin is still cheap.
This isn’t just bad economics.
It’s psyop-level narrative warfare.
GLACA / GLACA/PETER MOHAMED
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