Has a symbol been widely adopted for satoshi yet? I've seen Ș suggested but it's already a letter in Romanian. Ꞩ, Ȿ & ẜ (long s with stroke) all seem to be otherwise unused. Has anyone suggested using any of them?
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related: medium.com/coinranking/…, en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_(unit), twitter.com/dickerson_des/status/1155560643635884032– Murch ♦Commented Aug 1, 2020 at 20:07
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Also related: twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1292966320732925952– Murch ♦Commented Aug 11, 2020 at 18:51
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Is it so hard to use the existing reference ₿ in the same way we use the basic units such as m (meter) or g (gram)?
We've always just added a multiplier like m (milli), μ (micro), n (nano) etc. to get smaller (or larger) versions of these base units. Everyone is already familiar with units like mm, mg, and (larger) km, kg and, bytes (for example) kB, MB, GB, ...
For bitcoin we just need ₿, m₿, μ₿, n₿ where 1 μ₿ is 1 'bit' or 100 sats, and 1 n₿ is 0.1 sats.
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1) i dont remember why i removed the spaces between number and unit decades ago. Probably it was just more compact and didn't cause any confusion. 2) mu for micro is the correct way to write it; I just think that most people won't find that character in simple text messaging apps 3) my apologies for adding the line notifying the edit. I'm still not sure what I should have done :)– harrymCommented 2 days ago
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Satoshi is often abbreviated to sat or s, although no currency symbol has been widely adopted.
I can't find where I first saw this symbol used for sats, but I've seen it a few times now and it is kind of growing on me:
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answered Nov 8, 2020 at 3:07
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That's called a section sign: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign. I wouldn't have a problem using it, but some would certainly complain, just like with the '฿' for Bitcoin itself, because it's the symbol for the baht (Thailand's currency).The symbol I'm referring to is .– jastakoCommented Nov 8, 2020 at 20:42
how about ₛ , 𝕤, or ⓢ? "ₛ" is a subscript s. currently $1=0.00001004/1,004sat. With suggested symbols it would be:
1,004ₛ
1,004𝕤
1,004ⓢ
personally, I like 𝕤 or ⓢ. ⓢ would be a good fit considering the standard bitcoin symbol has always been ₿ in a circle.