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Topic: Contest to name the 0.0001 BTC unit (0.1 BTC prize!) (Read 8624 times)

legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
0.0001 BTC = Ittibit or IttiBit

Forgot to confirm this one, which seems valid enough.
legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
Scrambit

And... that's it! I should have the poll up within 24 hours. Thanks to all who participated!
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
Scrambit is my last offering  Grin
legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
Just a few minutes, if anyone is contemplating last-minute suggestions.

I'll lock the thread shortly after time is up.
legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
Put all the names in the poll, if it is obvious then let the voting say so.

I'm sorry, but that's just not going to happen. Sad

If a different name becomes commonplace, I can't stop that, and I have no intention to try.

And of course, others can host their own contest.

But I have criteria that I'll be applying to the initial selection process, and I've provided said criteria... plus there are a few names that I'm just not going to give money for. The forewarned bias rears it's ugly head!
legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
member
Activity: 60
Merit: 10

(credit for 'bip' goes to arcke at post #53; i'm just highlighting a rationale for it above.)
legendary
Activity: 1414
Merit: 2174
Degenerate bull hatter & Bitcoin monotheist
Following on from my prior suggestion of 1 Nakamoto :


1 Satoshi can be shortened to 1 Sat, then
1 Nakamoto can be shortened to 1 Nak.

So I also put forward "Nak"

member
Activity: 60
Merit: 10

0.0001 bitcoins is a pip.

Make that

1 bip

and I'll buy it.

(Pip is familiar to currency traders, but bip is a pleasant enhancement which fits bitcoin ideally.)
newbie
Activity: 8
Merit: 0
0.0001 bitcoins is a pip.
member
Activity: 60
Merit: 10

Given the historical precedent of naming currency denominations in honor of historically significant persons ...

Ah, then it's time to chime in with the chaum:

1 chaum

for David Chaum, who by essentially creating the original concept of secure digital cash based on cryptography, and his successes and failures with DigiCash, gave at least some of us an expectation, example, and hunger for practical electronic cash, and surely must have been a factor leading to the creation of bitcoin, zerocoin, etc.
Qim
newbie
Activity: 22
Merit: 0

Who do you think you are?

His money. His post. His rules.

Amazing how people complain about the stupidest things.

I think I'm nobody.
I was trying to help him, to make this game more serious. But I speak like complaining or you read it so, shit, my fucking poor English.
Well, I don't think the voting thing is stupid.
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 250
coinWonder Grin Grin Grin

1KzMUFVfD15VyW6zgvmrLLUz7UmzMMUvzk
Qim
newbie
Activity: 22
Merit: 0
Don't be so serious about this contest, this is just for fun.
Even if 1000 forum members unanimously vote for a serous name, it may still not be adopted by the masses.
This a hardly an official referendum  Cheesy

Yeah... you are right, maybe I'm too serious.

1 BTC = 100,000,000 Satoshi
It may never have anything between, needed or not needed.

But if we have to name something between, I would prefer just one name for 0.0001BTC or 10000 Satoshi instead of mBTC or/and kSatoshi.

Shit, actually you are right, it will not be adopted by the masses. even a real outstanding name comes out here...
newbie
Activity: 32
Merit: 0
bitdime.
legendary
Activity: 1918
Merit: 1570
Bitcoin: An Idea Worth Spending
Not sure if there's still time

I want to submit one more name

"V"

I suggest a different letter.

newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
Not sure if there's still time

I want to submit one more name

"V"
newbie
Activity: 23
Merit: 0
Dollar Bit
sr. member
Activity: 266
Merit: 250

You'd have to look back at the ones I quoted. Obviously, some of the suggestions were less serious than others.

If you don't feel like going back, just list your suggestions; if any are duplicates they'll just be tossed out before the poll choices are chosen.


Obviously ? Really ? Who's opinion ?

How do you judge less or more serious ?

All the judgements should be made by voting, not by one individual.

OK, you set the 0.1 BTC prize and you can send it to anyone you like, but if this is not a fair game or some of us don't think it's a fair game, then it may end up less people would use the name you decided for 0.0001 btc.

So, to make less complains as possible, to make more people willing to use the name in the future, I strongly suggest that :
Don't be obvious. Put all the names in the poll, if it is obvious then let the voting say so.

Who do you think you are?

His money. His post. His rules.

Amazing how people complain about the stupidest things.
legendary
Activity: 952
Merit: 1005
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Don't be so serious about this contest, this is just for fun.
Even if 1000 forum members unanimously vote for a serous name, it may still not be adopted by the masses.
This a hardly an official referendum  Cheesy
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