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
Hard disagree with that last statement
I actually agreeâSatoshi himself likely wouldnât have cared what we called the smallest unit. He didnât seek attention or legacy in that way. But thatâs precisely what makes naming sats in his honor so meaningful.
It wasnât about branding. It wasnât a decision made by him.
It was a decision made by usâthose who chose to adopt, build, and believe in Bitcoin.
Calling them sats isnât vanity. Itâs collective memory.
Itâs how decentralized cultures anchor their history: not with signatures, but with symbols.
And over time, âsatsâ became part of Bitcoinâs memetic gravityâa unit, a story, a tribute.
Thatâs not worship. Thatâs history.
Of course I also call sats the "cents" of Bitcoin, but I assure you that when I first heard about them I thought they were another shitcoin.
It's just habit, it's a tribute to a person who didn't want tributes.
He was sure aware of the memetic power of what he was creating.
The Genesis Block message alone proves that - it wasnât code, it was narrative.
He didnât brand himself, he vanished. Thatâs myth-making.
Bitcoin isnât just software - itâs an idea built to spread.
Thatâs memetic design, whether he called it that or not.
Sats
Whenever artist are going to make a stance on a cultural debate with different tools or processes than they are using in/ as their art in general, this is a signal for me.
It shows that this society should be cautious about the way it takes and slow down velocity for at least a moment, if not halt at all.
Thak you nostr:nprofile1qqs0fk6jwz7ejxchh6s7d5p473w7uwffr8pfga9m4sgrgtfz836wp5qpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uqsuamnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dshsvu2yzm for this signal.
to be fair, naming things and being consistent with names wasn't his strongest skill đ
Names of things are not always planned, often they emerges spontaneously.
Sat is the name that emerged so we should probably stick with it.
(just my 2 SATs)
Per praticità nostra di bitcoiner meno ignoranti molto probabilmente verrà mantenuto il termine sats, ma è una "stortura" del protocollo.
Per l'adozione invece sarĂ sempre uno scoglio iniziale molto confuso.
Fino al 2010/2011 non venivano chiamati sats.
anche cambiare il valore di quello che chiamiamo "bitcoin" di 8 ordini di grandezza cosĂŹ, di punto in bianco, potrebbe generare molta confusione.
alla fine credo che mantenere il nome che è emerso spontaneamente (SAT) sia il male minore e sia il metodo piÚ corretto per risolvere la questione.
Se ci sarĂ un cambiamento nei nomi e nelle unitĂ spero che sarĂ dettato dall'uso diffuso piuttosto che imposto da qualcuno a tavolino
Ripeto quello che ho giĂ scritto prima.
Quando conosci Bitcoin, le unitĂ le chiami come vuoi nella cerchia dei tuoi conoscenti.
La confusione può essere solo per noi bitcoiner abituati a chiamarli sats, non per la maggioranza della popolazione mondiale che non li ha e che ha paura di comprarli perchÊ sentono che 1 Bitcoin vale 100k dollari e neanche sanno cosa siano i sats o che esiste lightning network.
Io ho provato ad Orange pillare tante persone e ti garantisco che quando parlo di Bitcoin e poi parlo di sats vanno in confusione anche se glielo spiego con un disegno e glielo scrivo per bene.
Yes friend đđ¤đ¤
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
It still remains an anonymous signature
