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Topic: Stupid coins: The importance of the name (Read 1811 times)

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November 25, 2016, 07:21:44 PM
#35
titticoin Grin Grin
sr. member
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November 25, 2016, 06:53:00 PM
#34
PascalCoin is nice  Grin
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November 25, 2016, 09:31:36 AM
#33
Ethereum has a real good name. Even better than Lisk to my taste. You know, there's even much worse than MaidSafe.

LOL yeah...Ethereum quite good to hear. There are funny soundng coins in Yobit too. There is also TIT  coin  Grin Whatever the name as long as it has a good features and a large follower or community is a good coin. The good name is bonus for me.
legendary
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November 25, 2016, 09:06:46 AM
#32
If a new coin is really a breakthrough, then the name might not matter.
Bitcoin would have still succeeded even if it was named as "Decentralized Digital Token"  Tongue
The same is the case with Ethereum. In the case of me-too coins, I think the name plays a role.
copper member
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November 25, 2016, 04:19:11 AM
#31
I think the name of coins is important. It can be subjective according to the goal or intent of the developer.  The name being good or stupid depends on the person's opinion.  The proof about that is the following reply after you posted.  Not knowing what it meant may make the name uncool but digging deeper will more likely think you are wrong about your first impression.
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November 25, 2016, 02:43:53 AM
#30
Ethereum also contains a "th" sound, which most non-English speakers are unable to produce.
I'm pretty sure none of these shitty names get said aloud.  There aren't two human beings withing shouting distance of each other that are interested in any of them at any given time.

I think Dash is a stupid name, but I like the coin.  I much preferred Darkcoin.  Yeah, Doge is very stupid.  Monero is stupid.

Pretty much anything other than bitcoin (and I do also hate that name) is stupid.

NEM name gets said outloud by millions of people.  Maybe 100+ million

It means no in Hungarian and it is a food in Vietnam.   Cheesy  Grin
sr. member
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November 25, 2016, 02:06:31 AM
#29
Anyway, I don't necessarily think that Monero is the best possible name, but I don't know of an existing cyptocurrency name that is better, and looking down the top 100 list, I don't see any, other than possibly Bitcoin within the context in which it was created (no other such coins existed).

On the name, I don't think Monero means to most people what you all assume it does in your head.

Also it is 3 syllables with a portmanteau that can be misinterpreted in many different ways, e.g. Mo-nero, Mon-ero, Mone-ro. Facebook, Viber, and I-on are only 2 (Ion might be 1?).

It is not a horrible name. It is much more brandable than any name with ___Coin or ___Bit.

But you are going to have to teach people what it means. Monero is not high tech. No way. It sounds like some cultural heritage from Europe (such as a castle) being applied to computers doesn't make any sense. It is at best associated with fiat money and old world corruption we are trying to get rid of. It will not appeal to the youth and the people who want new, cool, tech. The youth want new stuff not the crap of their grandparents. They want swiping and vibering, not tours of museums in Old Europe.
sr. member
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November 19, 2016, 08:20:39 PM
#28
Ethereum also contains a "th" sound, which most non-English speakers are unable to produce.

I'm pretty sure none of these shitty names get said aloud.  There aren't two human beings withing shouting distance of each other that are interested in any of them at any given time.

I think Dash is a stupid name, but I like the coin.  I much preferred Darkcoin.  Yeah, Doge is very stupid.  Monero is stupid.

Pretty much anything other than bitcoin (and I do also hate that name) is stupid.

I more or less agree. It is not like anyone is going to be saying to anyone within shouting distance, "hey hit me up with some Mooneuro bro".

Btw, I have decided to name the currency of my new project "Shares" (as in the dual meaning of sharings and shares of the pie). We have a set of back up names if the community ends up not liking that.

But the project name remains secret. I think it will be first name in our ecosystem you will like. It rivals Twitter IMO. I paid $325 for the *.us TLD variant of the 5 characters, one syllable domain name.
legendary
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November 19, 2016, 07:34:16 PM
#27
Ethereum also contains a "th" sound, which most non-English speakers are unable to produce.
I'm pretty sure none of these shitty names get said aloud.  There aren't two human beings withing shouting distance of each other that are interested in any of them at any given time.

I think Dash is a stupid name, but I like the coin.  I much preferred Darkcoin.  Yeah, Doge is very stupid.  Monero is stupid.

Pretty much anything other than bitcoin (and I do also hate that name) is stupid.
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November 19, 2016, 07:10:04 PM
#26
I agree with the first post, and think that the name is almost same important as the tech and development, a lot of people first of all likes to identify themselves with the object
sr. member
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November 19, 2016, 06:10:03 PM
#25
Ethereum has a real good name. Even better than Lisk to my taste. You know, there's even much worse than MaidSafe.
legendary
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November 19, 2016, 02:27:32 PM
#24
In terms of names, my favourite was Bottle Caps, followed by Doubloons.
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November 19, 2016, 02:19:50 PM
#23
Unibit seems stupid too, look at the recent Ardor project by NXT foundation, it sound nice but some people do not buy into the name. All these are subjective
hero member
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November 19, 2016, 02:04:45 PM
#22
Thats true we could not blame the developer of this coins.
We could not blame why they build a stupid coins, but the
important thing here is how this coin will be a great in the
market.
legendary
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November 19, 2016, 06:43:17 AM
#21
I somewhat agree from a marketing perspective but for coins created in the spirit intended and for a community it plans to serve, why not a name that suits them? Perhaps marketability is not paramount to some.

I'm thinking of Dogecoin here, whose name is deliberately funny and non-serious. The doge was meant and still is fun!
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November 19, 2016, 04:00:51 AM
#20
yes there is importance on the name
Depend on your perspective.  Wink We can't blame the name of the coin is wrong or not. Every name maker has had some reason for this.
legendary
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November 19, 2016, 03:45:29 AM
#19
Ardor has to trade names with NXT ...
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November 18, 2016, 03:06:35 PM
#18
Ardor is one of the stupidest names anyone gave to a coin. Nxt was a bit weird but it became popular on the basis of being one of the first 2.0 coins. Ardor is ridiculous, and the 2.0 coin hype has run its course. The nxt devs must be betting that giving their new coin one of the stupidest names ever will make it a winner.
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November 18, 2016, 02:57:38 PM
#17
I remember a site that graphically, in the form of spiral diagrams epitomizes 5 years of altcoin evolution. Last time I checked it a year back, it had all alts released between 2011-2015, literally all of them, 600+ or so alts, with animated annotations and nice grouping into classes depending on hashing algorithms, features and manifestos. Anyone remembers whats the site name?
legendary
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November 18, 2016, 02:38:46 PM
#16
there's a lot of unworldliness in crypto as a whole, starting with bitcoin itself. only someone up to their eyes in computing would release 21 million coins for a whole planet. sure, they're divisible. they should've been a smaller denomination from minute one. that's how most normal humans think and always will.

most of the names reflect that too. i can't see donald trump complaining that mangocoin reserves are too low so the us treasury is switching to wild beast bitcoin while their foreign aid budget is gonna be diverted into boolberry.

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