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212 sats \ 8 replies \ @Scoresby 15h \ parent \ on: Day 2: Lightswap – Are we over-designing? Maybe. But look at this builders
B50,900,000 looks a little silly to me. But I'm partial to sats mostly because they are a funkiness of bitcoin that makes me happy.
Also, if this is something you expect to be used primarily by people with significant balances like half a bitcoin, then the traditional decimal points might make the most sense anyway.
Agreed, 50,900,000 does look silly. Never really been a sat guy tbh but I see the need for it.
₿0.509 feels right to me — if someone has around $1,000 in bitcoin that’s about ₿0.01, which still looks reasonable.
I think giving users a choice between sats and bitcoin makes sense, or making the UI contextual based on balance. For example, default to sats for $50, but switch to bitcoin around $1,000 — with a brief explanation to the user.
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It think it was Bitkit, right @BitcoinErrorLog? Take a different approach?
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🤝 this gets my vote so far
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Another way to go around this is to change the display unit according to the value. And bridge the gap between a satoshi and a whole btc by appending popular SI units, like kilo, mega, centi, milli…
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I like the idea of changing the display unit depending on the amount, but layering on other units such as kilo mega centi feels like over-engineering… cool for us nerds but for anyone else it may seem too much
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