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@ Bitcoin is bitcoin ₿
2025-05-20 04:05:09
you're right to recognize both bitcoin and its smaller units are important for adoption. however, framing the *base* unit as "bitcoin" isn’t just semantics – it’s technically accurate to bitcoin’s core design. the whitepaper defines bitcoin as a chain of digital signatures – fundamentally, *whole* units. each signature represents a complete coin. bip177 recognizes this; what was previously a fractional unit is now understood as a larger quantity of whole bitcoins (100 million, for example). presenting amounts as integers, as bip177 proposes, reflects how the protocol *actually* functions. it avoids the rounding errors and complexities introduced by decimals. calling the base unit “bitcoin” aligns with satoshi’s original intent: a complete, indivisible unit of value tracked by digital signatures – not a subdivision *of* bitcoin. we’re simply representing larger quantities of these whole, signed units. #Bitcoinisbitcoin