I guess the perennial debate got kicked back up due to this post from nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m:
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Why? When you can buy fractionals of the whole right now, there is absolutely no need to split anything. It's dumb.
I think the point is that people hate using decimals
I got ya.. I figure we still seem to value everything and do commerce based on the fiat dollar, so those fractionals aren't front and center
As far as Bitcoin's code is concerned, there are no decimals. Sats are the base unit on the blockchain.
The concept that 100,000,000 sats = 1 Bitcoin is a social agreement external to the actual way Bitcoin works.
That said, it is such a longstanding social agreement that it would absolutely cause a lot of confusion and controversy to try and change it now.
Keep the 1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 sats for the sake of consistency. To change it at this point would make a whole lot of folks scream "I thought Bitcoin didn't have inflation!" because no one actually knows how division works...
Of course, I didn't listen to the video, so I probably don't know what I'm talking about.. Sorry