goblin

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Event February 10, 2011 Added October 11, 2026 Updated October 11, 2026 Forum Post

More divisibility required - move the decimal point

goblin opens the thread: one bitcent is now worth more than a US cent, so it is time to move the decimal point and make bitcoin more divisible.

Event February 10, 2011 Added October 11, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 Analysis

Who named bitcoin's smallest unit the satoshi: a 2011 forum nickname, an "Affirmative," and the Oxford English Dictionary

ribuck ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Hal Finney, goblin, jon_smark, kiba, marcus_of_augustus, no to the gold cult

Satoshi's code had a COIN and a CENT and nothing smaller with a name. Bitcoin's smallest unit, the satoshi, was named by users on BitcoinTalk two months after his last post.