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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:29:40 +0100
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From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
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Cc: Wendell <w@grabhive.com>,
	Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc
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>
> You would only need to change it if there was a sub-satoshi hardfork,
> which doesn't seem necessary anytime soon.
>

+

We shouldn't make any assumptions about the future price of bitcoin to make
> the decision.
>

Hmmm ;) Didn't you just make an assumption about the future price?


> This sounds very US-centric to me. Aren't you thinking in usd?
>

The currencies I'm familiar with are CHF, USD, EUR and GBP, which all have
roughly similar values. I guess such currencies make up the bulk of the
Bitcoin userbase at the moment.


> "People seem to like mBTC" is just an ad populum fallacy: millions of
> flies can actually be wrong. Also you haven't showed them micros,
> maybe they like it too.


Saying "it's already popular and would take work to change" is not really a
fallacy now, is it?

But anyway, this is getting silly. You don't have to convince me. Go visit
all the services I listed above, plus all the ones I didn't find in my five
minutes of searching, and convince them they're wrong like the flies and
switching is the best use of their time :o

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ckquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #c=
cc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"">You would only need to change it=
 if there was a sub-satoshi hardfork, which doesn&#39;t seem necessary anyt=
ime soon.</div>
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<div class=3D"">We shouldn&#39;t make any assumptions about the future pric=
e of bitcoin to make the decision.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hm=
mm ;) Didn&#39;t you just make an assumption about the future price?</div>
<div>=C2=A0</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8=
ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"">This sounds=
 very US-centric to me. Aren&#39;t you thinking in usd?<br></div></blockquo=
te><div>
<br></div><div>The currencies I&#39;m familiar with are CHF, USD, EUR and G=
BP, which all have roughly similar values. I guess such currencies make up =
the bulk of the Bitcoin userbase at the moment.</div><div>=C2=A0</div><bloc=
kquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #cc=
c solid;padding-left:1ex">
&quot;People seem to like mBTC&quot; is just an ad populum fallacy: million=
s of<br>
flies can actually be wrong. Also you haven&#39;t showed them micros,<br>
maybe they like it too.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Saying &quot;it&#39=
;s already popular and would take work to change&quot; is not really a fall=
acy now, is it?</div><div><br></div><div>But anyway, this is getting silly.=
 You don&#39;t have to convince me. Go visit all the services I listed abov=
e, plus all the ones I didn&#39;t find in my five minutes of searching, and=
 convince them they&#39;re wrong like the flies and switching is the best u=
se of their time :o=C2=A0</div>
</div></div></div>

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