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ₓₒbₗₒᵣₜ on Nostr: "Bitcoin is many things to many people🙄, and not everyone has the same ideals or ...

"Bitcoin is many things to many people🙄, and not everyone has the same ideals or goals in mind😳. For people who use the Tonal number system, Bitcoin's ability to adapt to it is a "killer feature", and gives them reason to prefer it over their local fiat currencies. "

Tonal systems are used in music by composers and musicians, particularly in the Nashville number system for popular music and the twelve-tone technique for classical music, and in languages by their native speakers. Linguistically, #tonal languages like many Chinese and Bantu languages use pitch to distinguish words, while musicians use systems like the Nashville system to simplify chord notation or the twelve-tone technique to compose atonal music.

The goal of Tonal #Bitcoin is to bring Bitcoin to Tonal, not to redefine Tonal (which is older than hexadecimal) or advocate change to the #number system itself, so this is out of scope.