Yes, you can say sats. It's ok. The system is called Bitcoin and the unit is called sats. No problem there. It's the same as with guarani. Something is 200k. Everyone knows it's guarani, no one knows how much one guarani is worth (almost nothing). Everyone is able to operate in this environment. - Can you pay me in Bitcoin? - Sure, how much? - 2k sats, here's an invoice - sure, here you go No problem. - Can you pay me in Bitcoin? - Sure, how much? - 1 bitcoin - What? Wasn't 1 bitcoin like 100k$? - no, not the old bitcoin, the word now has a different meaning, haven't you read the BIP? - really? since when? just tell me how many sats. - 1 sat - you could have told me that in the first place

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This is not what will happen though: - Can you pay me in Bitcoin? - Sure, how much? - 2k sats, here's an invoice - sure, here you go This is what will *actually* happen: - Can you pay me in Sats? - Sure, how much? - 2k, here's an invoice - sure, here you go The reason is that 90% of the world will "Come to Bitcoin" by seeing a price-tag in Sats. A breakfast menu with scrambled eggs showing as 3,000 Sat (maybe the world spelled out, since we'll never agree on a symbol). So they won't come to Bitcoin, they'll come to Sats. Sats will be all they'll ever know. Bitcoin people find it hard to see this because they can't imagine what it's like to be that person who first encounters Bitcoin in any sense from scrambled eggs. They think the fact that Sats are Bitcoin is self-evident (it's not at all). In this future world of Sats, the word "Bitcoin" has no semantic value. It doesn't describe anything of everyday relevance. It adds no value that the word Sats doesn't already convey. It's pure baggage, and it'll disappear. This is how language always evolves. And that would be a sad waste and slow down adoption by several years.