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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] moving the default display to mbtc
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 04:07:58PM -0600, Allen Piscitello wrote:
> Obviously the answer is to just display all fees and trading rates as BTC
> or MBTC (.0000005 MBTC fee? how cheap!).  On a more serious note, the
> transition should definitely be thought out well as it could be very
> damaging to have this confusion, but I would prefer to do it only once
> rather than twice.

Why not just using SI prefixes, as God intended.

MBTC mega 10^6 
kBTC kilo 10^3
-    -    10^0
mBTC milli 10^-3 
uBTC micro 10^-6
nBTC nano  10^-9 (at all possible?)