Difference between revisions of "Bit (unit)"
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Revision as of 12:50, 27 January 2018
See also: Units
Some people advocate the term bit to refer to one microbitcoin (a millionth of a bitcoin).
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Criticism
Many people think this term is confusing. For example "bit" is also a portmanteau of "binary digit", a basic unit of information used in computing that can have only one of two values (either 0 or 1). See this Wikipedia article for details.