This happened to me as well. EU citizen that lived for a while in the UK. What is different is that in Google Play I still have my home address not one in the UK. So even more strange.
But a regular bitcoin node isn't transferring money. It's simply tracking the state of the network. A lightning node is creating transactions and financial agreements with other nodes in the network.
I don't think the end user needs to know anything about capacities or other technical details the same way a user doesn't need to know their internet speed.
The end user experience will be having a hot wallet in your computer/phone or online service like coinbase that will handle all the routing, channel setup, etc for you. Like when you use bittorrent you don't need to manually connect to peers, the bittorrent client handles that for you.
When a user opens a channel it has to lock up some BTC. That is called channel capacity because for payments to be routed through that channel (even other people's payments) that channel at least needs to have the same or more amount of BTC available. If you want to route a bigger payment you need to find a channel with more capacity.
Or simply, one tonne. In fact I'd guess that the engineers, thinking in SI units, told the PR people that 'we recovered a tonne', rounding to that figure for them because it sounds neat. Then the PR people converted to pounds for older readers, which comes out as the very precise sounding 2,204. So the figure is probably rounded but then presented as being much more precise than it is.
I don't understand this whole "tonne" thing. Why overload a word that already has two other conflicting meanings (the imperial short ton and the imperial long ton) when you already have a word that is more canonical and completely unambiguous in "Megagram"? Plus it just sounds cool.
It's only a problem in the US. The Commonwealth ton is only 1.6% larger than the tonne, so the distinction is usually insignificant. Most of the world has no knowledge of either the short or long ton.
Likewise, confusion between "mills" (millimetres) and "mils" (thousandths of an inch) are an exclusively American problem.
The American adherence to customary units is a constant annoyance for electronics engineers - an 0603 resistor could measure 0.6mm x 0.3mm or ~1.5mm x ~0.76mm
Sadly also a Canadian problem. We're nominally a metric country, but we're very much a hybrid. When we went to metric, many things still stayed in customary units, but with metric names. I'll likely never ask someone to go get me 454g of sugar from the grocery store, it'll be a pound. Your 2x4 is going to be 8 feet long. You're going to use 1/2" bolts. My generation does consistently use litres and celsius though!
A resistor measuring ~0.6mm x 0.3mm is an 0201. (2 1/100ths of an inch by 1 1/100th of an inch.) The standard doesn't make sense in SI units, but it's the standard.
SMD passives are listed in both metric and imperial units. Most sizes are unambiguous, but 0402 and 0603 resistors exist in both series. There's also possibility for confusion between the imperial 01005 and the metric 1005. These parts are specified in metric, making the imperial sizes purely nominal.
The metric/imperial split is a constant nuisance. Most board houses and PTH packages use mils, but the vast majority of SMT IC packages are specified in millimetres. Board layouts almost always necessitate switching between imperial and metric units; Layout software includes features to manage this. Wire gauges are a total mess - AWG, SWG and mm are all in common use. Standard pin headers and derivative connectors are 0.1" pitch (2.54mm), but JST connectors are 2.5mm pitch. Conversion errors have caused countless production problems.
Mils really confused me when I was learning PCB design. In the UK a thousandth of an inch is not a common unit anymore, but it isn't unknown. The problem is that we call it a "thou".
Because no one has any concept of that unit of measure. They use relatable units of measure, that's where the whole banana for scale thing came from because almost everyone has a grasp on the dimensions of a banana. People know cars weight tons and so a ton is a vastly more relatable unit of measure.
Why not? It shows the relationship between itself and other metric units better than "tonne" does. It would start sounding natural if people started using it.
But since this gold, did they actually measure the weight in international troy ounces, then convert (correctly or otherwise) to avoirdupois pounds, then maybe another incorrect or correct conversion to kilograms and metric tonnes?
