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I have been trying to find out just what is an mBTC is. Everywhere I look I cannot find out what the value is compared to a Bitcoin.

I was hoping you could advise me of what the value is.

Murch
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jock courtney
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    I'd have thought that we have that question already, but we actually don't have it yet! Nice find. ;) These are somewhat related: [What is a 'Satoshi'?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/114/5406), [Naming convention: MilliBit or Millibitcoins (mBTC), microbitcoin or Mikrobitcoins (μBTC)?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/16887/5406) – Murch May 24 '15 at 12:17

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m is the symbol for the metric prefix milli which indicates a unit to be one thousandth of its base unit.

A millibitcoin therefore is 0.001 BTC or 1/1000 BTC.

Murch
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mBTC stands for milliBTC. Just like millimeter or millivolt, milli indicates 1/1000th in the metric system.

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mBTC is also know as millibitcoin and it also one thousandth of a BTC (1 mBTC = 0.001 BTC) and there is another unit μBTC also known as microbitcoin and it is also one millionth of a BTC.

Murch
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Dipen Sajnani
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  • I've edited this answer because it contained grammar errors that made it somewhat confusing. However, in my opinion this answer doesn't add new content, rather it repeats previous answers. – Murch Sep 17 '17 at 06:44
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A millibitcoin is 0.001 BTC. But an easier way to remember is one satoshi is one hundred millionth of a bit coin.

Ten Satoshi                              = one Ith     I 
one hundred Satoshi                      = one Hish    H     
one thousand Satoshi                     = one Shi     S
ten thousand Satoshi                     = one Oth     O
one hundred thousand Satoshi             = one Tish    T
one million Satoshi                      = one Ash     A 
ten million Satoshi                      = one Sha     S
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