British where redefining feet and inches to match the new kings limbs, they also created miles, foot, yard, etc, because they had to invent new names for different lengths.

Much more useful was international systems of units which stoped renaming units and just added prefix like gram, kilogram, miligram.

Byte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, terabyte.

Now you can have BTC, milibtc, micro-btc, etc.

You can call data as bitsats If you want to make it sound familiar.

But renaming SATs to BTC is like renaming milimiter to kilometer.

This name change is not backwards compatible. Imagine an accounting system made in 2030 talking to one made in 2018 to Check their Ballance.

What will happen when you mess you the units in the accounting systems and different systems try to communicate:

Metric vs Imperial Units: How NASA lost a 327 Million Dollar Mission to Mars

https://everydayastronaut.com/mars-climate-orbiter/

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