"There will only be 21 million Bitcoins."
Only those who know Bitcoin know that.
But if tomorrow we stopped calling individual units satoshi, and started calling them bitcoin...
Then we would have 2.1 quadrillion bitcoins.
The scarcity is the same.
It is the mindset that changes.
The name of things matters less than the economic reality.
E i 21 milioni cosa sarebbero?
La gente poco esperta non penserebbe subito che ci sia stata una truffa e che i bitcoin non sono piu scarsi come prima? Il rischio e’ quello
La gente poco esperta non sa nemmeno cosa sia la scarsità o cosa siano i sats.
La truffa non sussiste.
Il cambio di nome serve a chi non conosce ancora Bitcoin e purtroppo sono la maggioranza, quindi dal mio punto di vista (che non vuole dire che sia giusto) aumenterebbe l'adozione.
Per noi bitcoiner sarà solo un problema di abitudine, un po' come quando siamo passati dalle lire agli euro.
Se ti ricordi avevamo la percezione di sentirci più ricchi con 1000 lire in tasca che con 1 euro.
Si continuo a non essere convinto al 100% di questa cosa. Non penso sia quel punto di svolta che porta a un sdozione di masse pero’ posso sbagliarmi 🤷♂️
Yeah that's not super confusing, changing the unit of a thing to the unit of another thing.
Let's call grams kilograms tomorrow. It doesn't matter.
this is the problem, you don't change the meaning of inches, you don't change the meaning of millimetres, you don't change the meaning of minutes or seconds, why change the meaning of an also definite and eternal quantity like a bitcoin
the only possible result of this idiocy is confusion, which is a red flag that the people who are consciously promoting this bullshit are malicious actors
they failed to push OP_RETURN bullshit so this is their follow up act
This isn’t just about “what we call things.”
Going from 21 million to 2.1 quadrillion is not a cosmetic rename—it’s a radical memetic shift. It breaks the strongest psychological framing in Bitcoin’s history.
You say “the scarcity is the same”—but the perception of scarcity is not.
And perception drives demand.
Bitcoin is not just math—it’s narrative, conviction, game theory, and economic signaling.
At $105,000 per Bitcoin, the world sees a rare, powerful asset.
At $0.00105 per “bitcoin,” it suddenly feels cheap, abundant, and meaningless to the very people we’re trying to reach.
You don’t slash the price, rename the unit, explode the supply, and expect nothing to change.
That’s not neutral—it’s economic and memetic sabotage.
The 21 million meme is not optional.
It’s the gravity well that holds Bitcoin together.
You don’t touch it without consequences.
The 21 million cap remains untouched only the unit of account changes, just like cents to dollars or satoshis to bitcoin.
This isn’t “economic sabotage,” it’s user-friendly clarity.
Pricing goods in sats instead of whole bitcoins makes Bitcoin more accessible and psychologically relatable, especially for newcomers.
We don’t say gold is $2,300 per ounce because it's rare we say it because that's the standard unit.
Scarcity isn’t diluted by how you count it; perception aligns better when people can grasp affordability, not when it feels forever out of reach.
inches are inches
millimetres are millimeters
nanoseconds are nanoseconds
litres are litres
gallons are gallons
what do all of these things have in common? they are constants, so why would you change the definition of them?
same with bitcoin, the underlying agenda with this story is to weaken people's concept of the certainty of what bitcoin is
This is precisely the underlying problem.
The single unit has always been Bitcoin, it was in 2010/2011 when Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared that the digits after the decimal point were called satoshi or sats.
"One hundred millionth of a Bitcoin" is the most correct and sensible definition of sats.
To facilitate the adoption of Bitcoin, it is much more attractive when with $100 you receive 95000₿ versus 0.00095₿
I am not saying I am in the right, I am just trying to put myself in the shoes of those who know nothing about Bitcoin and unfortunately I know a lot of them.
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I will still call it sats, thank you.
