Very respectfully, and as a huge fan, I have to politely disagree.
If I see “₿ 1000”, I feel like I’d read it in my head and out loud as “one thousand Bitcoin”, and I don’t think I’m the only one. Fortunately for me I understand what’s going on, but a normie who’s only really only heard of bitcoin from news and only really knows that it’s “really expensive now” could be really confused.
It could be argued that, right now anyone using Lightning to buy a shake isn’t a normie, and that’s 100% fair. Probably true.
It just feels wrong and like something we should be trying to “fix”.
I get that it’s easier to use the bitcoin symbol for now since there’s no agreed upon sats symbol, and there’s a good argument that a large number of decimal places is even worse, but I just can’t quite get down with it. It feels like we’re pushing an inevitable point of confusion/clarification using ₿ to represent sats.
Personally, I like https://satsymbol.com/, but it’s another one of those things that the community will bicker about forever, so I don’t really have a solution… I’m only convinced that ₿ == sats (sometimes) isn’t it 🤷♂️
I realize now that your comment was a response to another comment regarding BIP-177 and I might have misunderstood your comment in that context.
I was operating under the impression that you meant that the Bitcoin symbol was fine for sats without any reference to the BIP.
Ignore my comment if I misunderstood you 🫠
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