It makes sense to say bitcoins. Join them; it only takes a minute: Because there isn't a published standard that mentions plural yet. Why downvoting him for saying that the three sentences are all correct and that the verb should be the one requested by the subject? You are kind of doing singular in a backtrack sort of bitcoin which I don't like, though.
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Yeah, I agree Tyrone. Latest stable version of Bitcoin Core: Bitcoin submitted 2 months ago by rconscious redditor for 3 months. The plural should be invoked for all decimal amounts. They meet him every Saturday. As has been bitcoin many times on this subreddit: Plural f-ed up and not always singular.
The first two letters of the ISO three-letter code are the same as the code for the country name, and where possible the third letter corresponds to the first letter of the currency name.
Since bt has been the country code for Bhutan, hence BTC for bitcoin is incompatible with the standard that defines currency codes. You're right in that XBT hasn't yet been rattified but it does have a certian following with the likes of Bloomberg, XE etc.
I also agree that Bloomberg et al don't get the final say, but nor do you. I don't always agree with ISO standards, but I've spent enough of my life working with them to anticipate your disappointment that BTC won't be official no matter how often we use it in the real world.
No reason it can't exist like that though - there are other non-official codes too. Personally I think XBT is a bit short sighted as there will likely be other crypto-currencies in future, so perhaps something line XCB would work with the C standing for Cryptographic and the B for bitcoin leaving 25 other possibilities for any current or future alt-coins.
I guess we'll have to wait and see. The plural should be invoked for all decimal amounts. The only time the singular form should be used is for exactly 1. So your 1st example should be: Also, I don't think bitcoin has a plural, without again referring to or adhering to that idea that 1 bitcoin is meaningful. Again, its this terrible idea that a bitcoin is this "1 physical entity" like a coin. Bad name, always has been. It would be the same thing as saying 1 unit of bitcoin, 2 unit s of bitcoin.
In that sense you wouldn't add the S anyways. I am saying we should say "I just bought 5 bitcoin" rather than "I just bought 5 bitcoin s ". And this is somewhat already happening, with "I should buy some bitcoin" vs "I should buy some bitcoin s.
When we aren't saying a specific amount, most people already keep it as bitcoin, but even when a specific amount I say it should be bitcoin, without the s. The OP was hinting at giving up the plural - buy some gold, buy some bitcoin. You can specify 17 grams of gold, or 33 troy ounces of gold, or 2 millibits, or 10 satoshis. The confusing part is that we use the same word for Bitcoin and for one of the units bitcoin , unlike gold.
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Some friends also just say bitcoin. Just like gold, bitcoin is an uncountable noun. So yes, I agree with you completely! Me and one friend say "beats" just for speeds sake. Tagged as appreciative for comedic genius. For the units of value, lowercase bitcoin.
LOLspeak "monies" is acceptable. You can not design language. Who the fuck do you think makes up language? Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. I came across the sentence My biggest grievance is grammar mistakes. I'd be inclined to write it as My biggest grievance is with grammar mistakes. What is the correct way to write this, and why? See this related question asked by none other than myself: Every one of them is correct.
Related and possible duplicate: Nathaniel Pisarski 2. No, this is wrong. As is stated in the comments, all of the options are correct. Why downvoting him for saying that the three sentences are all correct and that the verb should be the one requested by the subject? Paola, I see, yes.