# What is the unit of ZCash? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [June 4, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-is-the-unit-of-zcash/706 "2016-06-04T22:04:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aniemerg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/aniemerg/32/268_2.png) [@aniemerg](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/aniemerg)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-is-the-unit-of-zcash/706/1 "2016-06-04T22:04:44Z")
1 unit of Bitcoin is a bitcoin. But what is one unit of Zcash? Is it “a zcash”? “A Zcash coin”? Those are kind of awkward and weird. Is it a “note”? Probably not, because the protocol specification ([zips/protocol.pdf at main · zcash/zips · GitHub](https://github.com/zcash/zips/blob/master/protocol/protocol.pdf)) uses the name “note” to specifically refer to Zcash that is in an anonymized form. Is there an official answer to this question? Or, what are people using? ---
**Author:** ![jtaylor1173](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/jtaylor1173/32/9978_2.png) [@jtaylor1173](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/jtaylor1173)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-is-the-unit-of-zcash/706/2 "2016-06-04T22:12:08Z")
Best to my knowledge, the value has not yet been determined and that we will not know until or around Sept. 5 when mainnet will be deployed. ---
**Author:** ![Austin-Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Austin-Williams](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Austin-Williams)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-is-the-unit-of-zcash/706/3 "2016-06-05T02:39:45Z")
I think it’s one ZEC (pronounced “zeek”). ---
**Author:** ![aniemerg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/aniemerg/32/268_2.png) [@aniemerg](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/aniemerg)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-is-the-unit-of-zcash/706/4 "2016-06-05T03:34:42Z")
@str4d says that he calls it a “zek” (it rhymes with “heck”). The smallest unit of ZEC has been called a “zatoshi” obviously a play on the “satoshi” of bitcoin. ---
**Author:** ![Austin-Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Austin-Williams](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Austin-Williams)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-is-the-unit-of-zcash/706/5 "2016-06-05T03:39:40Z")
Awesome. Also, I love ‘zatoshi’. ---
**Author:** ![LiteCoinGuy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/litecoinguy/32/142_2.png) [@LiteCoinGuy](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/LiteCoinGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/what-is-the-unit-of-zcash/706/6 "2016-06-05T16:58:05Z")
hrhr, a zatoshi is better than “note” 🙂