📅 Original date posted:2014-03-13
📝 Original message:>
> Even if a cup of coffee costs 3.12345 mBTC, that's a lot more annoying
> than 3123.45 uBTC.
>
This is subjective though. To me the first price looks like the price of a
cup of coffee (or I just mentally double it). The second looks like the
price of an expensive holiday.
If users really find this so terrible, merchants have a simple solution: do
the rounding before presenting the price. Then the price looks like "3.12
mBTC" which is sort of what I'd expect it to look like. But some wallets
already make digits >2dp smaller so visually you can get precision whilst
still looking similar to what you might expect (this is what Bitcoin Wallet
does).
> I haven't seen a single good argument for keeping it in mBTC (other than
> some people already did it).
>
That's the good argument!
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2023-06-07 15:15:34
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