Reconsider descending numbering

[casey]

I'm thinking that descending numbering is possibly a mistake. It's intended to fix the problem that satoshis with short, desirable names were mined in early blocks, which presumably won't ever move. We could fix this by defining the naming scheme to go from long to short, instead of reversing the numbering of all satoshis. I think this would be better, since ascending numbers feel more natural and are easier to explain. Using ascending numbers would mean that desirable numbers, like single-digit satoshis, were mined in the genesis block, which is still unfortunate. However, it might be worth the additional simplicity. After all, what's short doesn't really matter, what matters is what's rare, and short, low numbers will still be rare, they'll just be longer than otherwise. Additionally, it'll be exciting to see if early blocks suddenly move, which would lower the floor on the length of sat numbers.

[casey]

Comments welcome!