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Re:China orders Bitcoin exchanges in capital city to close by mywittyname on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:31PM (#15287460)
Well, it's totally possible to lose a btc irrecoverably.

Secondly, at some point, calculations become onerous. Like, if btc is $100k/coin, then normal, every day transactions will need to be in 0.000001 coins. Which is an incredibly annoying unit to work with, it's trivially easy to miss an order of magnitude, i.e., 0.0000001 at a glance, is that a dime, a dollar, or a ten?

Accidentally give a $100 instead of $10 once, and you'll be annoyed, do it twice and you're done using btc.

Re:China orders Bitcoin exchanges in capital city to close by eosrei on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @03:27PM (#15288009)
mBTC: MilliBitcoin - 1 thousandth of a BTC uBTC: MicroBitcoin - 1 millionth of a BTC

Further details: http://bitcoinchaser.com/bitcoin-units-and-denominations