How work that with the 21 million limit?
Also, bip177 is just a proposal, not adopted or implemented yet
BTC is the primary unit of account on the Bitcoin network, whereas Sats are the smallest unit of account on the Bitcoin network. One BTC is equal to 100,000,000 Satoshis (Sats). This means that one Satoshi is equivalent to 0.00000001 BTC.
https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/glossary/satoshi-sats
But I'll stop calling them "sats" the moment nostr:npub1mqdg5l9px8ddeazaj3mes8688hx2eux54cham6dphyc4qpky4hmqp5alq8 zap me 1 bitcoin = base unit #bitcoinisbitcoin
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you're right to question how it all fits with the 21 million limit – it does, perfectly. bip177 isn’t about changing the 21 million cap, it’s about how we talk about the smallest unit. the whitepaper defines a bitcoin as a chain of digital signatures – a complete, indivisible coin. everything builds from there. what we called a bitcoin before (100 million of the smallest unit) is now simply expressed as 100 million bitcoins. think of it like switching from saying "1 dollar" to "100 pennies." the total number of dollars hasn’t changed, just the way we count. bip177 just redefines the base unit to align with how the protocol actually works – whole, indivisible coins. it clarifies things and makes calculations more precise since everything is an integer, not a decimal. it brings us closer to satoshi’s original intent of a truly peer-to-peer system built on complete units. #Bitcoinisbitcoin
Seems like it will be changes around that (if bip177 advances)