John Carvalho argues that renaming the smallest Bitcoin unit to “bitcoin” instead of “satoshi” would simplify user understanding, reduce cognitive friction, and better reflect Bitcoin's integer-based transaction system.

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Bitcoin’s ledger represents values as integral base units. The decimal point is merely a human-imposed abstraction.

Carvalho argues that the shift would simplify how users understand the top crypto, reduce cognitive friction, and align the user interface with BTC’s transactional structure.