By far, you’ve just laid out the best argument I’ve seen for sats. I’ll have to chew on this for a bit. All I know right now is that 8 decimal points sucks.

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That argument fails to imagine what the world will look like if Sats are adopted as an everyday currency. The word Bitcoin loses all classificatory value in this context. Nobody will say "Bitcoin Sats" because why? Bitcoin Sats as opposed to what? Non-Bitcoin Sats? Stores and restaurants will, over the years, stop saying "We take Bitcoin" because why? The word Sats is what will appear on menus, on receipts. Why slap on another word that doesn't appear anywhere on menus or receipts? Words that don't *do anything* always get weeded out; they confuse people, they waste space. (This is unlike dollars and cents, where both words appear on menus and receipts and both words are *doing something* there, adding something there.) Regular people first encountering Bitcoin in this context (a restaurant menu, etc.) won't in fact "come to Bitcoin", they'll come to Sats. It'll be like the many countries in the world with one small currency unit, and everything is priced in an amount of that, be it 100, 1k, 10k, 100k, or whatever. Basically a vote for Sats is a vote for the slow death of the word Bitcoin in all casual retail contexts over the next 20 years. Which if that's what you want then cool, but be clear that's the vote.