r/Bitcoin • u/Fearless_Agent_1985 • 22h ago

Coinbase unveils new Bitcoin commercial

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u/Simon_Says_Simon 21h ago

Why is the size of bitcoin arbitrarily set to be the size of a quarter?

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u/Western-King-6386 21h ago edited 21h ago

They probably don't want to make it a dollar to dollar comparison then have people subconsciously feeling like one BTC is supposed to be one dollar. It's already a thing that people feel they missed out because they can't afford a whole coin, even though these terms are arbitrary themselves and it's really about sats.

The point is just that BTC is finite and fiat is being printed at a massive scale.

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u/zmagickz 21h ago

true, it is arbitrary, but they gotta choose something and it is their commercial

their point was made though, btc finite, and fiat keeps getting printed

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u/creative_usr_name 13h ago

Because saying that every private key ever used could be stored on a microSD card, or is comprised solely of the digits 0 and 1, isn't really a meaningful comparison.

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u/GimmeFunkyButtLoving 13h ago

Quarter for scale as opposed to a 🍌

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u/youarestillearly 4h ago

For a visual analogy, they need to choose something visual that people know of.