Sats or Zats?

I noticed on Ledger Live when changing the units for Zcash under settings it allows for us to display the balance in “Satoshis” - I thought it was supposed to be called Zatoshis? Or is that unofficial?

Sats sounds better anyways and I think if Zcash becomes mainstream people will just continue to use this term to pay homage to Satoshi.

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The name Zatoshi is used in the Zcash Protocol Specification document.
See section 7.12 Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (page 138):

[…]
“All of the BIPs referenced below should be interpreted by replacing “BTC”, or “bitcoin” used as a currency unit, with “ZEC”; and “satoshi” with “zatoshi”.”
[…]

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