Mainly because humans have been used to that for the current and previous generations. Its the same principle in ux design when building apps. Usually you stick with whats familiar to make it easier to digest. People don’t like learning new paradigms.
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Sats are literally not a new paradigm to learn…
If you look at the Steak ‘n Shake receipts people are spending around 30,000 sats (aka 30$ at current btc price). That multiple rule of thumb just gets easier.
People in the east are already used to 4 digit valuations of everything, ie 1000 yen for a burger or 1000 rupees for a drink.
Sats are more intuitive than people think.
I am not actually suggesting bip176+177 is a good idea, it was a thought experiment. I still use bip176 personally because it’s easier to visualize 10,000 bits as $10,000 in the future, so it grounds me in future thinking, but thats just a personal thing.
Yeah I get it. Maybe in the future
Today however Bitcoin needs the marketing of 21 million hard cap for NGU.
Call a spade a spade, NgU is the most important metric for adoption.
It’s the plebs jobs to keep bitcoin and freedom tools growing so we don’t FIATize the bitcoin network, ie no longer permissionless.