Having Bitcoin on the brain for so long, I agree, but I onboarded a mate the other week, and explaining bitcoin vs satoshi was just one more road block I had to overcome in order to have him secure financial independence.  Explaining that 100 million satoshis is equal to 1 bitcoin is a mental exercise noobies can do without.  And when you imagine just 3 epochs from now, when the reward is under 100 million bitcoin (😉), an infinitesimal minority will be referring to more than 100 million units. If we can use trillions for dollars, we should have no issue with trillions for bitcoin.  The pebble has been thrown into the pond, let's see where the ripples take us.

guyfawkes

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itsybitsybtc

Thanks for clarifying, that makes more sense. I still don't think this will happen, nor is it effective UX for bitcoin. Ultimately, if someone says "500 bitcoin", that already means something else and it happens to mean something incredibly important. Sats already has wide spread adoption, and there's no way I see it changing. 

That said, had Bitcoin started off the way you're suggesting, I think it probably would have stuck. Just too late now. 