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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @OgFOMK 13 Dec \ parent \ on: John Carvalho proposes BIP renaming sats as bitcoin bitcoin
There a re 1,000 mSats in a Sat.
There are 2,100,000,000,000,000,000 mSats in the Bitcoin protocol of Layer 2. That's 2.1 Quintilian.
There are 2,100,000,000,000,000 Sats to play with on chain. That's 2.1 Quadrillion.
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44 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 14 Dec
lightning can go lower than msats, it's just a unit attached to an invoice, see BOLT11:

Human-Readable Part

The human-readable part of a Lightning invoice consists of two sections:
  1. prefix: ln + BIP-0173 currency prefix (e.g. lnbc for Bitcoin mainnet, lntb for Bitcoin testnet, lntbs for Bitcoin signet, and lnbcrt for Bitcoin regtest)
  2. amount: optional number in that currency, followed by an optional multiplier letter. The unit encoded here is the 'social' convention of a payment unit -- in the case of Bitcoin the unit is 'bitcoin' NOT satoshis.
The following multiplier letters are defined:
  • m (milli): multiply by 0.001
  • u (micro): multiply by 0.000001
  • n (nano): multiply by 0.000000001
  • p (pico): multiply by 0.000000000001
This means that a lightning invoice for 100k sats starts with lnbc1m because 1 mBTC is 100k sats.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OgFOMK 14 Dec
Nice! This also shows that lightning is ready for the deflation activities of the increased buying power of Bitcoin.
Fungibility through math and not liquidity through increased supply.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @1GLENCoop 14 Dec
Thanks for that. My first thought about 1,000 mSats in a Sat was right then.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 14 Dec
msats means millisats and milli means 1/1000
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