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Yes of course, Satoshi must have woken up one morning thinking, 'They're going to call pennies sats, in my honor!' - spoiler: no.

Satoshi would never have called bitcoin cents sats. Too much vanity, too much branding. He was aiming for protocol, not worship.

Calling them sats is like putting a signature on a work that was meant to remain anonymous.

#my2bitcoins

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago 💬 22

To say that only 21 million Bitcoins exist is misleading.

The truth is that 2,100,000,000,000,000 units of Bitcoin (perhaps 2.1 quadrillion sounds better) exist.

A currency designed to be scarce but not for the few, a currency that is divisible and accessible to all, almost 260,000 Bitcoins for every human being.

To call them sats is confusing: it sounds like something else, an undervalue.

Better to call them what they are: Bitcoin.

Even a single unit is Bitcoin.

A new mindset starts with a new language.

#my2bitcoin

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₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 7mo ago

A me piace tanto chiamarli satoshi 😭😭😭😭😭

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago 💬 1

Quando conosci Bitcoin puoi chiamarlo come ti pare, non è questo il punto.

Puoi chiamarli anche pepite, sassolini, stelline e nella tua testa saranno sempre Bitcoin.

Ma mettiti nei panni di chi non conosce Bitcoin, prova a tornare con la mente a quando hai sentito parlare di sats la prima volta e dimmi se avevi afferrato immediatamente il concetto.

Personalmente no.

₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 7mo ago

No neanche io. Pero vabbe basta poco studio per capire. Allora e’ solo una questione di marketing?

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago

Tutto è marketing. L'adozione è marketing.

Non è possibile convincere le persone a studiare bitcoin.

Bisogna far vedere che è semplice, che non è confuso, che i tuoi risparmi sono più protetti, che non devi fidarti di banche o intermediari, che non devi aspettare i giorni feriali per inviare "bonifici".

Se iniziamo a confondere le persone con "sats" perché noi bitcoiner siamo abituati e ci sentiamo più fighi a chiamare le singole unità sats perché ci piace così e perché vogliamo ricordare Satoshi, rimarremo a scambiare Bitcoin in quattro gatti.

₿oniz23⚡️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹 7mo ago

Mi stai convincendo… quindi cosa proporresti? Di chiamarli come?

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago

Semplicemente Bitcoin.

GLACA 7mo ago 💬 1

This isn’t clarity—it’s memetic populism.

You don’t make Bitcoin more inclusive by diluting the narrative that made it powerful in the first place.

Sats aren’t confusing—they’re like cents to dollars, or euro cents to euros.

No one struggles with that.

But reframing sats as “Bitcoin” erases the psychological gravity of the 21 million cap.

It turns a precise, finite story into a blurry abstraction.

I’ve spent years helping people understand that only 21 million Bitcoin will ever exist.

That’s already hard for newcomers to grasp.

Now imagine telling them:

“Oh wait, actually… it’s 2.1 quadrillion.”

You’d destroy the mythos, dilute the message, and invite chaos into the clearest monetary meme ever created.

Sats are not the problem. Changing the ledger’s story is.

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago

I disagree. But that's okay. 🫂🎨

GLACA 7mo ago

Why? What don't you agree with here?

Is it that hard to get that :

"21 million is a number humans can believe in. 2.1 quadrillion is a number they’ll never trust."

As an artist imagine that.

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago

Do you want to convince 8 billion people that we need to share 21 million bitcoins?

Personally, I can more trust that we can divide 2.1 quadrillion Bitcoins and they will still be worth that much and still be divisible.

Precisely because I am an artist I can imagine it possible.

To me, 21 million seems like a coin for the few.

GLACA 7mo ago

You don’t need 2.1 quadrillion “Bitcoins” to share value with the world.

We already solved that: each of the 21 million Bitcoins is divisible into 100 million sats.

That’s 2.1 quadrillion units—the exact same quantity you’re imagining—but with the clarity of a finite cap and a clean monetary philosophy.

The point of Bitcoin isn’t to feel abundant.

It’s to be scarce, honest, incorruptible.

Sats give everyone access to that truth without needing to blur the story.

You don’t have to own a full Bitcoin.

Owning sats is how you begin to understand value—piece by piece, block by block.

That’s the discipline. That’s the beauty.

And yes, Rothbard said it well:

A sound money doesn’t need to be large in number—it needs to be divisible.

Bitcoin is already divisible enough to serve 8 billion people and more.

No inflation. No rebranding required.

We don’t fix perception by rewriting the ledger.

We fix perception by teaching people what value really is.

That’s what Bitcoin was made for.

And that’s why we defend the meme.

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago

Ok.

GLACA 7mo ago

🟧

🟠 isolabellart 7mo ago

🫂🎨

jamw 7mo ago

Yes and many of those 8 million people think 1 bitcoin is too expensive and that a sat is just another shitcoin. And that hurts adoption.

Satoshi himself even said just move the decimal point - no mention of sats or anything else. It’s still all just Bitcoins - nothing has changed and it’s still a scare, fixed supply. And exactly! No rebranding is required and that includes sats or anything else.

Bottom line: Sats has only come about because of the fixed fiat mindset.

Be different.

GLACA 7mo ago

You mean 8 billion, not 8 million.

And many of them don’t think sats are worthless—they simply haven’t had time to learn what sats are.

Because we’re just now entering the era of real Bitcoin usage.

For years, Bitcoin was mostly held, not spent.

Now? People are paying for burgers with Lightning.

Bitcoin is finally being used at the speed of life.

That’s a monumental shift.

But like any new money, it takes time to adjust.

When you travel to a new country, what’s the first thing you ask?

“How is this currency structured?”

“Oh, 1 euro = 100 cents. Got it.”

Same thing here:

1 Bitcoin = 100,000,000 sats.

You own 0.5 BTC? That’s 50 million sats.

Spend them freely. Price things accordingly.

That’s not fiat thinking—that’s basic math, applied with clarity.

It actually respects Bitcoin’s scarcity and divisibility without diluting its meme.

Sats don’t need to be erased or renamed.

They need to be understood, used, and respected.

It’s not the sats that confuse people.

It’s the people trying to rebrand Bitcoin mid-cycle because they’re uncomfortable being late.

The solution isn’t to move the decimal point or rename the units.

It’s to educate, wait, and let people adjust—just like every currency before it.

If it costs under 1 BTC, show the price in sats.

Simple. Honest. Future-proof.

And yes—sats are not an altcoin.

They are Bitcoin.

Just closer to the ground where the people live.

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Personally, I started to respect sats when I joined Nostr.

Suddenly my notes—or my art—were zapped by strangers with sats.

Sometimes 50. Sometimes 5.

And it meant something.

It gave me joy.

It taught me that sats are not just decimals—they’re signals of appreciation, participation, and value exchange.

When you start experiencing sats, your perspective shifts.

You stop thinking in fiat fragments and start feeling Bitcoin.

And that’s when it clicks:

This is how money was always meant to work.

jamw 7mo ago 💬 1

Yes 8 billion - a typo. I understand what you’re saying but I disagree.

CptKook 7mo ago

Let me guess, you bought that jpeg with all your bitcoin and now you’re sour

idsera 7mo ago 💬 1

If you search for sats on Google, all first results are about a shitcoin.

GLACA 7mo ago

Grok knows sats. So does OpenAI. First thing DuckDuckGo shows? The exchange rate of satoshis. Because that’s the full name.

‘Sats’ is just the short form—Bitcoin-native, culture-born, and protocol-defined.

If Google shows some random shitcoin first, that’s not a problem with Bitcoin.

That’s a problem with Google..

leadbyexample 7mo ago

Right, let's call them what they are, 0.00000001's bitcoin.

Or sats for friends.

Math, do you even know it?

Kenneth 7mo ago

True!

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