What are sats?
You don’t have to buy a “whole Bitcoin.” The real unit Bitcoin moves in is the sat — and thinking in sats makes everything click.
Here’s the single most common thing that scares people off Bitcoin: they see one Bitcoin costs more than a used car and assume the door is closed. It isn’t. You were just looking at the wrong unit.
Meet the satoshi
A Bitcoin can be split into 100,000,000 tiny pieces. Each piece is a satoshi, or “sat” for short — named after Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
So you never have to buy a whole Bitcoin, the same way you never have to buy a whole bar of gold. You can buy 5,000 sats. Or 2 million. Whatever fits your budget this week.
Don’t think in Bitcoin. Think in sats.
Why sats make life easier
Pricing a coffee at “0.00006 BTC” is a headache. Pricing it at “6,000 sats” feels like normal money again. Whole numbers. Pocket-sized. Human.
That’s why Bad Wallet is sats-first by default: your balance, your history, and the amounts you send all read in sats, with the dollar value sitting quietly alongside for when you want it.
The one thing to remember
One Bitcoin is 100 million sats. You can own sats today without owning a whole coin.