Topic: ANN: 100mBTC (0.1 BTC) physical coins + 5 free coins naming competition (Read 11308 times)

OP can't put in the effort to spell and use punctuation, I wonder if he is a minor.

What happened to this? Is this dead?

I'll suggest something like a combination of previous ones suggested for this coin:

Cryptiq decimus

or perhaps the better spelled

Cryptic decimus

I like the whole combination for the line but if you just wanted to call the line Cryptic with decimus reserved for the 0.1 BTC coin and other words for other values (Cryptic mill = 0.001, Cryptic centavo = 0.01, etc.)

Another idea would be

Mundo (Spanish for world, similar word to Euro but more all encompassing)

I want to thank you all for your suggestions, ideas and support.
The name has been decided on last week, but I want to keep it a surprise.
I will say if it were a guessing competition, seleme would have won .

Or Cryptie  
CryptieCoin

I would avoid any name that contains word coin. With new altcoins being announced on daily basis you'll have problem to make a brand from your business.

Find your own fancy and exotic version of Casascius. Make it to sound non-english - spanish, portuguese, arabic.. something like that, japanese is not bad too but I would avoid it to not cause confusion with satoshi.

Brand is half of business, if you name it Hardcoin, I'll forget what it is in month and when I hear it next time I'd automatically think it's some of million altcoins. When you name it Bitinho or something like that, I won't.

Not to forget that we are currently living in the year 102 of the Republic of China... with "Republic of China" referring to the tiny yet democratic island of Taiwan by the way, not to be mixed up with the giant communist thingy called by almost the same name, only with an added "People's". Which uses 2013. And by a freak chance it is also the year 102 in North Korea, simply by the coincidence of  Kim Il Sung's birth having been in 1912, where in China the new era of the republic had started (and lasted till 1949,when the communists had won the civil war aka the next revolution). Oh, and the Japanese Taisho period also had the same numbering of years.

Which leads me to my point, finally: since the creator(s) of Bitcoin chose a Japanese pseudonym, numbering years in Japanese ways might be a way to honor this aspect of Bitcoin's "birth". Similar to the Chinese, to my understanding Japanese traditionally counted years from the start of a new era. This era in our case could be the start of the Bitcoin network in 2009. Of course this obvious counting method has already been suggested. I am simply trying to point out one possible reason supporting this kind of counting.

To identify the era name, obvious choices would be Satoshi, Nakamoto or Bitcoin. So the current year could be called S5, N5 or B5.

A reason for not using S5 could be that it could refer to year 5 of the Showa period (1930). In this period the then militaristic Japan caused huge grief and suffering throughout Asia.

A reason for not using S5 or N5 would be that Japanese era names are not referring to the names of the respective emperors or events, but to a description of that era.

So B5 would be one possible choice in my opinion. Or if you want to go all Japanese style, ビットコイン5... or even replace the "5" by Japanese/Chinese numerals, resulting in ビットコイン五 - although probably most Westerners without Chinese/Japanese reading skills could not identify the numeral, except probably those few who play Mahjong and recognize the numbers from the WAN tiles

To me Crypts links more to an underground burial place like under a church than to Crypto coins, also it sounds too like the gang name Crips for my liking.

To me, "Crypts" sounds like "crips", which sounds like someone with a speech impediment asking for "crisps".

Cryptcoin seems to stutter in the mouth, so Crypts for me.

Crypts or cryptcoin.

Bitbobs is my fav, I liked sacko's design too

How about doing your dashed/dotted lines in the shape of a 7 pointed star, like

I like the bitbob suggestion, as it ties in with 'mainstream' tokens. In a similar vein, how about...

- Benny (bit+penny)
- Bounder (bit+pound...er)
- Billies (bit+millis)
- Betas
- oh God these are actually a bit dire. Or druggy.

OK, take 2...

- Blockcoins
- Keycoins

Got to keep it simple...

Ouch...

Still... I am ROTFLMAOSHISMS (so hard I s**t my shorts)

Not funny,

I have faith that they will release the butterflies soon... right after they have built the pot for the leprechauns to fill inside their own house at butterfly-labs. 10 for them, one for us... they win! Welcome for the investment, thanks for giving us the scraps! lol.

Minted BTC: (Original denomination), (Your identification/name/coinage-name), (3-letter Country Code), (Year)

The new standard for "physical mints".       (Makes them easier to collect in the future too!)

EG...

100 mBTC
Bit-O-Bitcoin
USA, 2013

As opposed to...

100 mBTC
Bit-O-Bitcoin
FRA, 2013

or, as opposed to...

100 mBTC
Rasha-Denominator
FRA, 2013

As for my "names"....

- Bit-O-Mint (Little freshness in the digital market)
- Bit-O-Bitcoin (Just a little of something bigger)
- Hash-N-Stash (It was hashed, now stash it away)
- Bit-O-Byte (Geeked play on words... You bite into gold goins to test if it is real, in the old days.)
- Scratch-N-Cash (Unlike, scratch and attempt to win... like a lotto ticket... This is a sure-thing)
- Lucky-Coin (Good or bad, it is still luck)
- Spare-Change (Can you spare change? Another play on words... Got change to spare?)
- UNO-Momento (One moment, one momento, the memory, this memory... More word-play...)
- Unvirtualized (Um, out of the virtual world, into the physical world, into your hand.)
- SHA-KING (Shocking... Sha King... )

Ok, all done... If I win, PM me, or send what you wish to donate to my wallet.
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I love this kind of thinking...

They are neither cast nor carved. They are stamped, just like our regular coins. That enables fine detail and yet they are quite resistant. Maybe not quite as sturdy as fiat coins, I believe the metal alloy is slightly softer as the pressure at which they are stamped is probably not as high as the huge machines our mints have, but the samples I have are quite tough, not sure if its any worse than normal coins,  and much more resilient than the hologram anyway, thats always going to be the weak point for someone carrying coins in his pocket.

To give you an idea, this is a scan of an older, abused 25mm sample coin:




Its a common name for the entire line, assuming there will be one over time. We cant just call it "a 0.1 bitcoin coin",  people need a way to differentiate between coins from various suppliers.

Be aware that casting metals is difficult work, and carving metals tends to be a bit expensive. Depending on the metal you use, and the size of the coin, the small detail of this coin could very well be lost. I'm wanting to make physical coins myself, and am getting an education by someone who does them for a living. Just be aware that the metal itself doesn't necessarily hold its shape if used, and so the smaller details can wear off or wear down if, say, someone carries this coin in their pocket.

Love the basic idea, otherwise.

As to the name of your coin, I'm unclear... is this a name for the entire line, or is it for this particular denomination of coin?

No where near as fundamental, as i thought. Cheers Mike.

The date 2140 is a bad date to reference as it is actually just an emergent property of the number of decimal places in the current implementation (eight), and how long it will take for the reward to get so small as to not be representable without more precision.  If the precision is ever increased, the 2140 date will become irrelevant.  And that also assumes that the date won't drift with difficulty changes (it probably will - example, it already drifted more than a month for the first halving - Nov 2012 instead of Jan 2013).

Yes. I was thinking of some kind of symmetry with the number of blocks completed, also.

Without going off-topic, is it fact that successful mining COULD take place before 2140, and fundamentally CANNOT after this date? Is my understanding correct?