Do you think these billions of people will talk about mempools and other technical parts of the protocol?

You have rice, I want rice, you want bitcoin, I send you bitcoin, we move on with our day. They might still be sats, but most people have other things to worry about.

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You're digressing. People will just call anything smaller than a bitcoin sats. It's really not that complicated.

Again, I think they will not want to deal with learning a second term because they have other really important things in their life that they’re also trying to learn about.

To use sats, they have to hear Bitcoin. I think for many people, the learning will stop at Bitcoin and sats won’t have a chance to permeate.

Okay so they don’t. Fuck em.

I don’t think doing that to them will change their behavior

It depends

This is dumb. Dollars, cents, etc. It's all been said. Sats are the standard.

I agree. I’m just saying that given the trend of mainstream’s adoption of technical terms, I think sats fade over time in the lexicon

"Sats" isn't a technical term. It's a relatively widely name for smaller dinominations of bitcoin in homage of the creator(s). There are a lot of bitcoiners who have minimal technical skills (myself included) who understand this at face value without more than a glance.

Hence my original post

We all love sats. Long term I think it becomes a fun term that all the early folks toss around