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Sats Meaning

Sats is the plural and shortened version of Satoshis. It has become a verb in the phrase Stacking Sats, which refers to the habit of regularly buying small amounts of Bitcoin regardless of the price.

This Sats-centric worldview is a hallmark of the Bitcoin Maximalist community.In technical development, Sats is the standard unit used in API documentation and smart contract parameters. When a developer writes code for a Bitcoin payment gateway, they specify the amount in satoshis to avoid decimal confusion.

For example, a transaction fee might be set to 500 sats rather than 0.000005 BTC. This precision is vital for the automated systems that power exchanges and Layer 2 scaling solutions.The phrase Sats are the Standard reflects the belief that as Bitcoin becomes a global reserve currency, the world will eventually price all goods-from coffee to real estate-in satoshis.

This would return the global economy to a Fixed Supply model similar to the gold standard, but with the added benefits of digital portability and infinite divisibility.

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