I guess the debate is really over at what point that change needs to occur. Obviously it's completely silly to imagine paying thousands of whole bitcoins for a pizza today, but it wasn't silly in 2010. At some point though people understand the relative value of other things vs. Bitcoin. Whether bitcoiners like it or not, stable fiat currencies like USD are currently very efficient ways of comparing the current relative values of other things vs. Bitcoin in the economy.
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We should price things in Moscow minutes for now. Since bitcoin has no top, this will always be an issue until hyperbitcoinization. And then we’ll have to standardize it to a cup of coffee or something else besides the USD.
Right, bitcoin is not currently the standard reference point in the world for determining the relative price of other things. Until it is, pricing anything in sats has to have some degree of flexibility to keep it fair within the larger economy.
it's a struggle and we'll need to figure out some pricing structure as more goods and services can be paid for in bitcoin. pricing something based on bitcoin's future price doesn't seem right since we're living in today's world with today's fiat bills that need paid. it seems like we're always going to go back to a fiat based price system. as long as bitcoin's purchasing power it's associated with is based on a fiat currency, it doesn't seem like it's something we can escape.
I feel it's more a philosophical struggle for some than anything else. "Sats per dollar" (or euro, yen, dong, whatever) is easy to determine at any given moment. Most bitcoin wallets even have the conversions built in when creating an invoice.