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.

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I don't see a problem. If dollars are called dollar-cents, it's ok. We have even nice shorter word - sats. Totally fine. BTW: I have used this trick during the 2017 craze. I met a guy who said that $20k for one Bitcoin is too much. I laughed and I told him I have a much better deal for him then, it's called Sats, it's fresh and cheap, he should buy. I still see this as a non-issue and even your worst case is much better than confusing people by redefining a word with an existing definition.