It’s a weird article. First, it calls it “bitcoins” as in 4532 bitcoins for a coffee. But then calls it base units. Base units of what? Bitcoin? “Yes, that’ll be 4532 bitcoin base units of bitcoin” 🤦‍♂️

What do we call the base unit? Bitcoin? We have a name for it already and it’s sats.

If the reverse becomes true and “bitcoins” becomes the base unit of “bitcoin” then this is super confusing. I see that the author of the article decided to call it “BTC” but this is just a trading symbol for bitcoin. It’s bitcoin a peer to peer cash .. not BTC, a peer to peer …

But I do get the feeling that most product designers will inevitably shift to the symbol as base unit since they don’t need permission.