Yea sats are onchain, but Coinbase is egregiously marketing cbBTC as "onchain" (which is really an ETH rollup, not onchain bitcoin at all). So for the new user, they see Coinbase cbBTC (with bitcoin logo) onchain vs "Boardwalk sats". Its just hard to compete with that marketing for a new user. Agreed that maybe its not better to have "Boardwalk Bitcoin", but maybe helps a bit for a new user. We're gearing up from a product perspective (lots of awesome new stuff coming soon!) to compete directly with Coinbase wallet, so I think of them as the main competition and need to have better marketing so have been working a lot on the comparison for a new user. image

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I guess I’m a little confused why it’s an issue. cbBTC is a token pegged 1:1 with Bitcoin, and as you said it’s not Bitcoin. Coinbase explains this clearly when I look it up on their website. It is similar to how cashu and liquid are not Bitcoin, but are tokens pegged 1:1 with Bitcoin. They can all be transacted anywhere they are accepted, and then “cashed out” for bitcoin when the user wants. If someone was to buy 0.01 cbBTC on Coinbase, and sent that (via a swap I assume) to some Bitcoin wallet, in most popular wallets that balance would be shown as ₿ 0.01 or 1,000,000 sats based on user settings. If that same swap was sent to Boardwalk, Boardwalk would show it as 1,000,000 ₿ , correct? That is incredibly confusing. Why not just use what every other wallet already uses when denominating bitcoin? There’s nothing to stop you from using ₿ the way you are, but I’m trying to point out to you why it doesn’t make sense. It’s your battle to lose, and it’s your customer service that will need to explain it to your users.