Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 177 has sparked a global debate on Bitcoin’s user experience and financial education, though the technical protocol of Bitcoin would remain unchanged if the proposal is adopted.

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Internally nothing changes; what users now know as 1 BTC would display as 100,000,000 bitcoins, while wallets could offer a legacy toggle for backwards compatibility.

The proposal pursues the goals of educational clarity, as presenting integers ensures that newcomers do not mistakenly assume that Bitcoin’s nature is decimal-based.