A tacoshi is one trillionth of one Monero and the smallest sub unit available. Where did the name tacoshi originate?
If Monero becomes widely adopted and its value grows dramatically can small Monero units be created? If smaller units are possible, would there creation require a hard fork or a soft fork?
The tacoshi was named after a Monero developer called TacoTime.
It would be possible to create units smaller than 0.000000000001 XMR but smaller atomic units would require a hard fork so that those smaller units would be recognized by all peers on the network.
Even if prices rose dramatically the need for smaller units would remain uncertain without more information about current network activity, hash rates and transaction fees.
I'm sure the term tacoshi will continue to be used interchangeably, but the official term of piconero was recently merged into the source code.
