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Topic: 2013-01-02 Daily Dot - Bitcoin arrives in 2013 more popular than ever (Read 1381 times)

legendary
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I think the name "Bitcoin" should never be put into company names. Walmart is not called Dollar Walmart, nor is the Bank of America called the American Bank of Dollar.

Let the second wave of confusion and misunderstanding begin.

Perhaps airlines would be less confusing if they took the word "air" out of their names.

It's bad enough that all the airlines refer to themselves as "XXXXX Airlines", even though each one is an airline in the singular, rather than the plural.
You're missing the point. "Air" relates to function, which all names should have. Just like Walmart. Bitcoin Central is not the centre of Bitcoin, even though its name implies such. AeroMexico accepts USD, which is not common to accept in Mexico (where they accept peso). Even so, its name does not include "dollar".
vip
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I think the name "Bitcoin" should never be put into company names. Walmart is not called Dollar Walmart, nor is the Bank of America called the American Bank of Dollar.

Let the second wave of confusion and misunderstanding begin.

Perhaps airlines would be less confusing if they took the word "air" out of their names.

It's bad enough that all the airlines refer to themselves as "XXXXX Airlines", even though each one is an airline in the singular, rather than the plural.
legendary
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In August 2012, Bitcoin announced that it was launching a Mastercard debit card. Even better, the first ever Bitcoin bank was established in December.
* kiba faceplams.
I've mentioned this before:
I think the name "Bitcoin" should never be put into company names. Walmart is not called Dollar Walmart, nor is the Bank of America called the American Bank of Dollar.

Let the second wave of confusion and misunderstanding begin.
legendary
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In August 2012, Bitcoin announced that it was launching a Mastercard debit card. Even better, the first ever Bitcoin bank was established in December.
* kiba faceplams.
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Daily Dot - Bitcoin arrives in 2013 more popular than ever

http://www.dailydot.com/news/bitcoin-growth-steady-popular-2012/

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Among the data citing to support this claim was the increase in downloads of the various Bitcoin-related clients. Bitcoin-qt, the most popular of the clients, reached 70,000 downloads a month in the second half of the year.
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