Jack Dorsey supported the proposal to abandon Satoshi in Bitcoin

CEO of Block, Jack Dorsey, is among the experts who supported the proposal to remove satoshi as the base unit of digital gold.

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sats are so confusing to people just getting into bitcoin.

bits of bitcoin is better, and just bitcoin is best.

— jack (@jack) May 18, 2025

This is how Dorsey reacted to BIP-177 from developer John Carvalho. The latter suggests the elimination of the term “satoshi” — one hundred millionth of a bitcoin.

In 2017, Jimmy Song proposed creating what are called “bits” — one millionth of a whole. According to Carvalho, such an approach will still require users to think about decimal numbers and “will likely increase complexity rather than eliminate it.”

“Satoshi confuses those who are just starting to dive into the first cryptocurrency. Bits are better, and ideally — just Bitcoin,” wrote Dorsey.

In this context, the entrepreneur referred to a discussion on this topic in December on David King’s podcast. In it, one of the participants, Stevie Lee, head of the product department at Spiral, lamented that not enough people know about and are interested in what satoshi is.

“Everyone knows Bitcoin. No one knows Satoshi. Users just want to send and receive digital gold,” noted the specialist at that time.

The expert reminded that some perceived the minimum unit as a completely new token, unrelated to the first cryptocurrency.

According to Li, the community should not be too worried about this change, as it knows that the underlying economy of Bitcoin will remain the same.

The Product Director of Byte Federal, Michelle Weekly, spoke out against changes.

People understand cents in a dollar, they will understand sats in a bitcoin.

Goodnight.

— Michelle Weekley (@michelleweekley) May 17, 2025

“People understand cents, they will understand satoshis in bitcoin”, — she wrote.

The head of business development at Zaprite, Parker Lewis, supported this point of view. He is convinced that satoshis are easier to understand.

A.
1 bitcoin = $103,000 There are only 21 million bitcoin 1 bitcoin can be divided into 100,000,000 sats $1 = 970 sats

Or

B.
1 bitcoin = $0.001 There are only 2.1 quadrillion bitcoin 1 bitcoin can be divided into 100,000,000 bitcoins $1 = 970 bitcoins

Easy A. Sats standard

— Parker Lewis (@parkeralewis) May 17, 2025

The creator of BitVM, Robin Linus, emphasized that even Satoshi Nakamoto was open to changing the way bitcoin units were displayed for convenience. The specialist referred to a message from the creator of the first cryptocurrency from 2010.

Billions know Bitcoin. Almost no one knows “sats.”

Satoshi cared about usability. He didn’t invent obscure units—he proposed shifting the decimal point.

Better UX. Smarter branding. And people will panic-buy those “cheap” Bitcoins once exchanges adapt. pic.twitter.com/oz3JgkN8Jx

— яobin linus (@robin_linus) May 17, 2025

“Nakamoto did not invent incomprehensible units of measurement. He proposed shifting the decimal point. Better user experience. More sensible branding. People will panic — buying these ‘cheap’ bitcoins as soon as the exchanges adapt,” he explained.

Let us remind you that in April, the community experienced an escalation of the “OP_RETURN war”. Bitcoin developer Peter Todd created a request to modify the Bitcoin Core code to remove restrictions on storing arbitrary data in the blockchain.