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@ Dikaios1517
2025-05-19 20:00:46
This was also asked and answered here:
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In short, it was first proposed in the Bitcoin Talk forums by a user going by "ribuck" on November 15th of 2010, and it was an offhanded suggestion to call 0.01 Bitcoin a "Satoshi," along with other names for smaller fractions of a Bitcoin.
It didn't catch on until it was suggested again by ribuck in February of 2011, but using "Satoshi" to refer to the smallest unit of 0.00000001 instead of just 0.01.