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nope but also i dont really care what symbols people use

happy to see square turn on bitcoin payments for merchants with sats as the standard

"Officer, I use nautical miles per hour." 😂

Imagine millions of people scanning invoices to pay for streams for ₿2/minute or second. This is not an improvement nor does it help. In fact it most definitely adds confusion and there is no good reason to use the same exact symbol. Just use a lightning bolt, sats, ₿s or anything other than an existing symbol that represents 100,000,000 as much.

Then consider the attack surface created by conditioning normie users to pay whole numbers of bitcoin for things. What could possibly go wrong?

Education materials will have to be updated to somehow explain the difference while already tackling a complex subject.

"oh yeah, and ₿ can mean $100,000 or 1/10th of a cent."

Totally ridiculous.

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ODELL 1mo ago

yea i don’t disagree, but people can ultimately do what they want

better to focus on things we can control, life is short

George Vaccaro 1mo ago

We can most definitely have impact on someone unilaterally attempting to confuse bitcoin users, by:

1. Sending clear feedback

2. Not using or supporting people/wallets/services who use this invalid, confusing and dangerous terminology

3. Spreading awareness of the problems with the community

This is well within the power of even an individual to help remedy.

I'll dare to say that packaging this with the otherwise very positive (and overdue) enablement of square's customer base to accept bitcoin, would be seen as an attack by many OG bitcoiners. To me, it's like a form of poison pill.