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Are these people crazy?!

Turning 21 million bitcoin into 2.1 quadrillion “bitcoins” isn’t just bad branding—it completely nukes the most important meme in Bitcoin’s history.

This isn’t just a bad idea.

It’s a recipe for confusion, dilution, and long-term cultural fragmentation.

We’ve spent 15 years building absolute clarity around one of the strongest memes in monetary history:

21 million Bitcoin. 100 million satoshis each.

Simple. Elegant. Untouchable.

And now, right on the edge of global adoption—now—they want to rewrite the script?

This doesn’t feel like UX optimization.

It feels like a narrative hijack.

A subtle takeover—not of the protocol, but of how people think about Bitcoin.

And that’s just as powerful.

Maybe I’m paranoid.

But changing the unit, the name, and the supply right before mass onboarding doesn’t just feel tone-deaf—it feels strategic.

Like rewriting the map while millions are just beginning to find their way.

I’ve never heard anything more short-sighted, more dangerous, or more fundamentally disconnected from what makes Bitcoin work.

It’s not a UI bug.

It’s a memetic monument.

You don’t demolish it for clicks, smooth UX, or vanity campaigns.

You protect it—because mass adoption is coming.

And what people adopt must be the truth, not a convenient lie wrapped in “accessibility.”

Jack is correct.

Its good marketing and builds better brand awareness.

Human psychology backs his claim.

Exhibit A:

1980s.

McD is selling the 1/4 pounder.

A&W competes, puts out the 1/3 pounder.

Sales fall flat.

Obviously, 1/3 > 1/4.

Doesn't register with customers.

Campaign fails.

McD wins.

1/4 pounder still here, successfully.

The "stack sats" meme is great for those in the know. But outside this micro-bubble, no one understands.

However, it's not all or nothing.

Bitcoin for large amounts

Sats for small ones.

Bits for txs in the middle.

Approachable. People get it.

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He is absolutely wrong about it:

Let’s imagine BIP-177 goes through.

Today, 1 Bitcoin = $105,000.

If satoshis are renamed “bitcoin,” that same asset becomes:

1 “bitcoin” = $0.00105

Let that sink in.

The asset people dream of hitting $1 million per coin…

The meme that drove curiosity, conviction, and global attention…

Suddenly slashed to less than a penny—overnight.

No, it’s not “just a UI change.”

It’s psychological and memetic destruction.

You think normies are confused now?

Try explaining that we didn’t change supply, just the unit, and now Bitcoin trades for one-tenth of a cent.

Try onboarding people into an asset that no longer feels scarce or elite.

This isn’t just bad UX.

It’s economic sabotage dressed up as “accessibility.”

It crushes momentum.

It dismantles meme power.

It’s the worst possible move—economically, strategically, and culturally.

You don’t reprice a monument.

You protect it.

21 million Bitcoin. 100 million satoshis. Leave it alone.

“Buy Bitcoin!”

“Its to expensive…”

“You can buy a million sats for X dollars.”

“Sats? Whats that a new bitcoin?”

“No, its a fraction of a bitcoin. Like a penny to a dollar.”

“…”

That is just about EVERY conversation with new comers.

“STUDY BITCOIN!”

“When? I dont have the time…”

Im not sayjng change “Sats” to “Bitcoins.” But market psychology proves people don’t (and won’t) get it.

Everyone I know gets it.

Sure. But I could say the same. If that's the case, then our circles need expanding.

People who don't get what a sat is, even after comparing it with a cent, will most probably never hold Bitcoin themselves (or sats, lol), as explaining them self-custody will fall on fiat ears.

They'll go for the "easiest" and "fastest" option, i.e. let a company own their sats, of which they've never understood the power and real worth.

And thats why they opt for ETFs instead of Bitcoin.

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How is it good marketing?

People don’t know that Bitcoin is money, most think of it like a stock and don’t really understand it.

Then what, we’re going to run a decentralised marketing campaign (funded by whom?) to inform the world of the change in denomination in our money which they don’t even understand is money?

So a decentralised campaign where there is most definitely not consensus, in which toxic maximalism is going to fight this and then anyone who comes into contact with it is just going to be confused and wondering why Bitcoiners are fighting over this and have NFI what this is about

It’s not good marketing, it’s stupidity. It’s messing with things because people think they know better.

You want human psychology - unit bias is an individual thing. That’s a fact. 100 currency units to you is not the same as 100 currency units to me. 1,000,000 units in Vietnam is very different to 1,000,000 units in the US.

So this doesn’t fix anything, it only opens unnecessary confusion.

Good marketing by keeping the branding consistent.

The whole concept of marketing is to build awareness and reputation. If the message is inconsistent, it becomes confusing and turns people off.

The average attention span of people in 2025 is 8 seconds. If you can’t explain it to them with that window, you lose them. (It use to be 9 seconds a year ago, and 30 seconds 10 years ago).

A decentralized marketing campaign is essentially what everyone does, whether they know it or not, and having these conflicting and competing ideas of what bitcoin is and what it isn’t is exactly why we are where we are.

“Hodl”

“Spend and replace”

“Never sell your bitcoin”

“Hyperbitcoinization”

The idea of bitcoin as a stock wins out more often than not is because its simple. Starightforward. Attacks the need.

Am I saying that I agree with BIP-whatever-the-fuck? No.

Am I saying that sats should be turned to bitcoins? No.

What I’m pointing out is that sats exists in a micro-bubble within the bitcoin ecosystem. The most POPULAR and downloaded wallets do not have sats as a unit measure. “It hurts the meme?!” What meme? No one outsidr of here understands it, gets it, its not even on their radar.

Compound this with the notion that only 4% of THE WORLD (maybe 3.24M ppl) hold bitcoin. And of that 4%, the majority holders are now institutions. They are not thinking or promoting sats in their financial news interviews, conference panels and marketing brouchures.

This is just basic market research. Knowing this can help craft a dialogue to help on board more people and places to Bitcoin.

But, if everyone wants to ignore human nature and psychology, go ahead.

Im just trying to help bring some reality to the ideolouge.

Displaying amounts in sats is great! Calling them "sats" is utterly confusing to the world at large.

"I wanted to pay in Bitcoin. Is this a scam?"

Maybe we just need better education, then. Otherwise we will always end up falling to the lowest common denominator.

We don’t have to adapt to dumbness, we have to help people out if it. That’s how we advance.

Correct.

They should have tried 4/12th of a lbs…

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