I told Satoshi to call it Digicashbills

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Quote from: AnonyMint on March 04, 2014, 11:22:46 AM

Quote from: wheatstone on March 04, 2014, 11:15:33 AM

How about just calling it bitgold like the original proposal bitcoin certainly looks to be based on?

I've had several people tell me that pisses them off because it slanders what gold is.

The more the issue of taint rises, the more I agree with that perspective.

Taint... It's a really bad word for what is actually a "might possibly stem from, if we average everything". It's a fundamentally misapplied term for the way the bitcoin network works.

Take the simple example of a thief that steals 1 btc and makes a shared transaction with an innocent, with both of them transferring 1 btc (each) to one other output. The thief transfers 1 btc from one output to another, the innocent 1 btc from one (different) output to another. Because of the way bitcoin works, it's not possible to tell which amounts go where. However, the thief still has 100% of his ill-gotten gains and the innocent is still 100% innocent.

Taint has no place in bitcoin.

AnonyMint

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Since we've diverged into the sexual hindbrain of the white males who dominate Bitcoin, I propose...

Queefit or Bitvart

SirWilliam

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This is great! Let's have a contest for the best name that Satoshi SHOULD have called Bitcoin!

Compudoughbucks does remind one of Commodore and that's as cool as a whole computer stuffed into a keyboard in the 80s. Colecoins (pronounced CO-LEE-COINS of course) is another alternative... Colecovision rocked...

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i told Satoshi to call it Clitcoin

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Quote from: remotemass on March 04, 2014, 01:30:02 PM

What about Dickbills and a note saying:
(it would have been called digicashbills but that's not so short).
KEEP YOUR DICKBILLS SAFE AT ALL TIMES!!!

Haha however, I like a coin called TheBigD

Everywhere you go you could ask if they take TheBigD

HOLY ShiZZZ someon make that coin hahaha

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What about Dickbills and a note saying:
(it would have been called digicashbills but that's not so short).
KEEP YOUR DICKBILLS SAFE AT ALL TIMES!!!

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Quote from: wheatstone on March 04, 2014, 11:15:33 AM

How about just calling it bitgold like the original proposal bitcoin certainly looks to be based on?

I've had several people tell me that pisses them off because it slanders what gold is.

The more the issue of taint rises, the more I agree with that perspective.

wheatstone

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How about just calling it bitgold like the original proposal bitcoin certainly looks to be based on?

AnonyMint

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Quote from: bitserve on March 04, 2014, 10:38:17 AM

It isn't a bill either.

Agreed. Then what is it? Lips sealed

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At least Satoshi had some sense of marketing and didn't listen you.

It isn't a bill either. So you don't even get your own point.

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Quote from: remotemass on March 04, 2014, 07:18:52 AM

Quote from: SirWilliam on March 04, 2014, 06:05:02 AM

Nevermind that, *I* told Satoshi to call it "Compudoughbucks" and he IGNORED ME! And NOW LOOK at what's happened because it's called "bitcoin." What a dummy!

Compudoughbucks looks a bit like Commodore. Is not too bad Tongue

I guess Monatari and MoanAtari were already taken by the monks and Playdoughs.

I came within proximity of Jack Tramiel at CES 1989 (?) and met Sam Tramiel at their HQ in the valley.

Seriously though I would have gone for Digithingamajig. Undecided

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Quote from: SirWilliam on March 04, 2014, 06:05:02 AM

Nevermind that, *I* told Satoshi to call it "Compudoughbucks" and he IGNORED ME! And NOW LOOK at what's happened because it's called "bitcoin." What a dummy!

Compudoughbucks looks a bit like Commodore. Is not too bad Tongue

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Nevermind that, *I* told Satoshi to call it "Compudoughbucks" and he IGNORED ME! And NOW LOOK at what's happened because it's called "bitcoin." What a dummy!

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Quote from: MrPiggles on March 04, 2014, 03:19:54 AM

Quote from: AnonyMint on March 04, 2014, 03:17:32 AM

Quote from: Zimbabwecoin on March 04, 2014, 02:19:26 AM

No cryptocurrency longer than 2 syllables has any chance of success whatsoever. Well unless it flows really good....

Your opinion(s) of a portmanteau of two small words (or word plus fragment) where one or both of them have 2 syllables, e.g. Ethereum?

Until this post I assumed ethereum was a real word.

Ethereal referring to something like ethereum.

Learn something every day etc.

So perhaps they succeeded?

But isn't it important for the name to mean something about what the product actual is and does?

What the heck does "ethereum" mean to your average bloke who is invested in Bitcoin?

Ether has some very distant connection to cloud computing or intangible matter, but what does that say about decentralized money or contracts?

I just don't think most people will get it. Whereas Bitcoin is at least is a coin. The Bit part is ambiguous to non-geeks, why I bite the coin or I only get a little bit of a coin?

Non-geeks don't know what a digital bit is.

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Quote from: AnonyMint on March 04, 2014, 03:17:32 AM

Quote from: Zimbabwecoin on March 04, 2014, 02:19:26 AM

No cryptocurrency longer than 2 syllables has any chance of success whatsoever. Well unless it flows really good....

Your opinion(s) of a portmanteau of two small words (or word plus fragment) where one or both of them have 2 syllables, e.g. Ethereum?

Until this post I assumed ethereum was a real word.

Ethereal referring to something like ethereum.

Learn something every day etc.

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Quote from: remotemass on March 03, 2014, 07:36:54 PM

I told Satoshi to call it Digicashbills (DGB) instead of bitcoins, but he didn't listen. .

Agreed, I also prod people to call people 'bunch of molecules', but they won't listen.

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Quote from: Zimbabwecoin on March 04, 2014, 02:19:26 AM

No cryptocurrency longer than 2 syllables has any chance of success whatsoever. Well unless it flows really good....

Your opinion(s) of a portmanteau of two small words (or word plus fragment) where one or both of them have 2 syllables, e.g. Ethereum?

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No cryptocurrency longer than 2 syllables has any chance of success whatsoever. Well unless it flows really good....

Bitcoins is an amazing name. It works. Digicashbills does not exactly roll off the tongue.

It's your lucky day! Digicashbills.com is available. I just checked and despite this long thread no one has been willing to spend 0.011 BTC or so to buy the domain name.

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Terminated.

Luckily, he went with the current name.

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I think you don't like it because you didn't see it blossom like that.
Believe me, if Satoshi have had listen to me and did never had introduced the wallet file concept and called it digicashBTCill you would love it the same or even more and it would smell as sweet.
Everyone would just type their private key (or pick a new one) with 256 radiobutton-like toggle buttons: to see its address and balance and to be able to send funds.
And people would understand it much better. I guess. But he didn't listen.
I agree that bitcoin as a name is much more ~~fascinating~~. But that's that.

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