Topic: The Reason why you chose your username (Read 1152 times)

never have I ever seen such cool pseudonyms as on this forum. I am happy to be here and the names I've seen here are awesome, as the people behind. As for my username, is just a boring and not interesting one that I chose two decades ago. I was actually out of ideas so just used this one. I am here to find news about coins, i am just a bored day trader

many people make their account names a pseudonym - just for fun - imaginary figure - or as a reminder of something important.

the name of the account that I currently use is the name of my second child (a girl) (even my daughter's name is a combination of my name and that of my partner).

The username that I chose to use when registering on this forum is a name that comes from a fictional novel called ARKHYTIREMA but there are also those who think that the novel is a true historical story. The name BRINIRHA has a long history of the name of an important figure from the LEMURIAN Nation (the ancestor of the Sundanese tribe in Indonesia).

I use the name BRINIRHA because I like this fictional character.
because BRINIRHA is a kind mother who has given birth to a very strong and kind child named ARKHYTIREMA.

the word BRINIRHA is also derived from the ZHUNNDA language. And ZHUNNDA is language of the LEMURIAN NATION (IZLAN LEMURIA); The ORKADAR Cluster (PLANET LEMURIA). (that's what it says in the novel)

I took this name because I wanted to be a kind and loving person and also strong like a fictional character named BRINIRHA.

You are the first person telling me this, and indeed, i learnt in a hard way, The truth of the matter is that I was totally ignorant, back then at the time, i knew nothing about CAC (cooperate affairs commission), the only CAC i knew then was a white garment church there in my area.
And when Fivestar music label came out, I actually didn't feel bad, because i lacked knowledge of what I have lost, it was until 2015 when a friend opened my eyes to the existence of CAC and how I should have registered the name if i cherished it as much, and maybe sell it if any big business showed interest in the name and is ready to pay in millions, he said i would have sold the name to the current Fivestar Music if there weren't willing to change to something else... The was when i started feeling bad about the whole thing, but I've gotten over it now and lesson is learnt - Indeed, people perish because they lack knowledge.


Yeah, dont be bitter, The Pharmacist sounds and feels really cool, i personally love it, and my guess is that Theymos finds the  username really interesting and that is why he would not give in to your request to change it, i mean if i was him(Theymos), i likely may also not allow you to change it

That's an ouch moment there! How the tables turned and the story of how the hunter became the hunted. It's really sad when things we ought to have done right turn to hurt us in future. A simple registration with CAC (Corporate Affairs Commission) would've secured the name for you and even placed you in a better position of bargain that would've fetched you millions if you decided to give up your username for that new company. Anyway, I hope you learnt your lesson on how to secure patent for any stuff you need to keep, going forward.

Lemme go'an have a drink to celebrate this accurate guess of mine! It's worth celebrating 🏃‍♂️

Ding ding ding!  As I was wracking my pea brain, trying to come up with a username I decided on either "A Pharmacist" or "The Pharmacist", and it was a close race.  Using "The" sounded egotistical to me, as if there wouldn't be another pharmacist on the forum (there's at least one that I know of, because he PMed me a few years ago and we started up a discussion about PIVX.  Turned out he's pretty arrogant, and I just stopped chatting with him).

Yes.  You're probably just too used to seeing my username to picture it being any different, and I'd probably think the same thing if the roles were reversed.  I never think of pharmacist and chemist as being synonymous, because in the US they're not.  The Sceptical Chymist was a great piece of old science from Robert Boyle, published in 1661, and chymist in that sense doesn't refer to someone who works in a pharmacy.  I guess that's how they spelled chemist back then, and it's funny to think of a present-day college student saying "Goddamn it, I flunked organic chymistry!!" (a not uncommon utterance for many who take it).

not all of them use fake names, there are also those who use real names, but the character of the word and the writing is slightly different.

And the reason why so many people use pseudonyms? maybe because of the security of their privacy in the real world,
because not a few people are afraid to give their original data,
and that is a legitimate freedom in my opinion.

 You want your favorite moniker all because, you did Pure Chemistry way back College 
 Can't really say bout " The Pharmacist " but, " The Chymist " ? From the Chemistry PhD bagged ? Could be.  Hopefully Big T listens to your plight.

I have seen a similar post in reputation where it was advised not to judge a user by their choices of username. I seriously disagreed on that opinion, I was of the opinion that usernames are not chosen randomly, there must be a reason for choosing a particular username, unless for bounty hunter account farmers.
Though LoyceV gave me reasons to agree that usernames might have no connection to the user's mindset to the forum.


Why I brought this matter is that there was a good poster who recently got alot of red tags by name AnotherAlt. It appears that this user had more than two accounts, so when he was creating the 3rd or the 4th, he possibly ran out of ideas and decided to use "AnotherAlt ", which in a real life was certainly another alt

Yeah, every username i've come up in any website is about my likings in any anime series or movies nothing personal related. This one is related to one piece movie, every one piece fan should know about it, so i dont need to explain or give details about it

LoL, its a funny question i must say, but maybe interesting some how...
My username "Fivestar" was a name i choosed during my music career days, yeah, i was into music back then and that was when i chosed "Fivestar" as my stage name knowing that five stars is the highest rating a service or person can get when the service or person performs as well as expected, i thought myself good enough for that rating and that was how the name "Fivestar" stock .

Unfortunately, after over three years without making any headways in my music, a new music company( a recording label ) was launched with the name FiveStar Music, the company owners were billionaires and Fivestar music didnt take time to become very popular due to heavy promotion and the company signing already popular musicians into the label.

Keeping that stage name became impossible for me since if i ever manage to become popular with my music, people will think i got the idea of the name from the music company and the music company might even sue me for maybe copyright infringement.
I later gave up doing music but still wanted to keep my stage name since it one i personally love, but now, i wanted it to look a bit different from the actual already popular music company, that was how i decided to add the "4ever" which turned it to "Fivestar4ever", i later wanted to add something that will resemble a surname, i searched for something that would have good meaning but very short since "Fivestar4ever" was already long enough, that was when the idea of "MVP" ( which simply means Most Valuable Personnel) came in and i decided to stick it in..

This was how "Fivestar4everMVP" came about, the username was not born out of trying to hide my identity, ive had this name way long before i joined this forum, i used this same username on almost all my social account like
Facebook
Twitter
Telegram
Instagram
etc.

Actually, my name served as the inspiration for my username decision. It's merely a shortened version of my full name, which I've gone by since high school. There is nothing more to the suffix tied to it; it is simply a number that I frequently use in the majority of my accounts.

Make it two guesses and I will have a gander –
                 1. You chose it after your profession.
                 2. You picked it, unrelated to what
                      you're but, as one who could make
                      prescriptions for the malady that
                      was in the forum of shitposts and
                      scams when you joined.

You do really want to change it? I think The Pharmacist sounds better than Chymist, frankly.

Speaking of AOL, I remembered those early days of spams that were mainly pharmaceutical, such as enlargement pills. Now it's about those lost princes and business proposals.

You could always drop the 50 BTC into his account if you really want a change that badly

Yes I know nobody ain't casually donating 50 BTC, let alone 0.5

I remember the early days of using e-mail and having usernames on crap like AOL chat rooms (which I was a fan of back in the day nevertheless).  My thought is that if you're joining a site like this one where your screen name is basically your face, you really ought to put some thought into creating one that's memorable and perhaps clever. 

That's if you care about the forum or any other website or service where you need a username.  When I see really, really generic usernames that look like every other one here, I immediately get the impression that that member doesn't really want to be here to contribute and interact with others on a personal level.  Look at some of the more famous members, the ones with big personalities who've perhaps made friends here or have had feuds or whatever: a lot of them have pretty un-generic handles.  Vod, OgNasty, TECSHARE, Phinneas Gage, TMAN, Lauda all fit that category.

Anyway, blah blah blah.  I picked my name because....just take a guess.

And now I want to change it, but Theymos is turning his hairy ear to my pleas for lenience.  Maybe if my name was (The)(cool)Cryptovator he might let me.  I'm not bitter.  I'm really not.

I've always associated numbers on usernames to believe those numbers mean something special to the users. Sometimes I believe it could be the user's date of birth, wedding date, date they got something uplifting, etc. Yours is an exception from what I've seen as you said the numbers on your moniker were randomly chosen and didn't represent anything to you. Look at what I meant below 👇

Interesting question.
I chose the first part of my username, Daniel, because it is similar to my real name and because of the true, original meaning of that name, which means "God is my judge" in Hebrew.
The second part of my username, 91, refers to the year 1991, which has a special meaning in my life, and no, it is not the year of my birth, as many think.
It was a year that was a big turning point in my life.
For now, that's all about the meaning of my username and why I chose it 

I don't think i have a reason for choosing my username. After i got introduced to the forum i had to type in a username i will always remember. The forum was my first time of seeing anonymous online community where real identities are hidden so i made a choice from what i could relate with. No special reason behind my username

So many registered members here,when registering might want to use their real name or nickname as their user's name but you will found out that if your name is an English or common name,it will have been chosen by the member who registered before you.

In such case,you will be confused first, you have to think of another name or your native name or a name which you have come across and you love the name to be your username. Everybody have a reason for this.

As for me when I was registering, I chose Frank,which is my name because its a popular name,I was told it has been chosen by another user. I thought for awhile and decided to use a name I know can't be used by anyone which is Frankola,after writing it down something told me what if this name has already been used by another user,I decided to add LA to make it double which is my username Frankolala.

I got the name in school instead of Franko which is normal a close friend that I met new do call me Frankola.

I don't have the fancy reasons others have, such as to preserve anonymity or because I was a cryptocurrency trader. I used to be a competitive cyclist when I was a teenager and had recently purchased a Shimano Ultegra groupset for my bicycle. Thus, I came up with Ultegra134. The numbers don't represent anything but were mostly used when my desired username was taken. This is the only forum I've used so far and will probably stay that way. I guess it represents the start of my cryptocurrency era and the start of competitive cycling. 

A little boring since it doesn't have much to do with cryptocurrencies, isn't it?

For me, BITCOIN4X is something very special because bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency I heard of before signing up for this account. I have no other reason than that bitcoin was my first investment in crypto, and I absolutely love to spell this name with BITCOIN FOUR X.

The most special thing is, I managed to rank up to Legendary after being down due to the new requirements for newbie when I was Junior member. I never forgot about it, and now I'm in Legendary after 4 years.

Username in other forums and other social media's is still the username we have here. With or without privacy in mind, everyone must have a unique username. Two people must not have the same username but two people can have the same name. I didn't bother myself so much by choosing my username because it is just a dialect name divided into two, one part the starting part is dialect while the other is a universal name. The number at the end means when I began to appreciate the knowledge of bitcoin.

Using moniker (username) isn't excluded to this forum alone. It's the norm when it comes to social media. People want to keep their privacy offline and enjoy the highest level of freedom of expression that ordinarily eludes them in real life.

For me, I had to make my username special at the time I was picking it. My moniker isn't just a  name out of the blues. It was specifically picked to reflect something close in my life at the time I did.

Hahaha, do you really want to know? But I guess I should keep that privacy a little bit, mate.
Let you know, skarais is meaningless in the dictionary, but there are many stories about that choice of name that I don't want to talk about right now.
This username was a spontaneous choice, but behind it all there is a story I don't want to remember. Just forget it.

By the way, I'd also like to have a real name for my username, but since my chances of changing it are bit, so skarais will remain.

Not all our usernames are to conceal identity, some users on forum are answering their real names, not their complete names, but their real names. My username is an extract from my business name. It is a name that has stuck over the years from being called by most of my customers who I have delivered satisfactory service to. When I joined this forum, I couldn't think of any other username to use.

it's just my game username, im too lazy to think for a new one.

did you not try again for now? What I know about name changes that can be immediately accepted are forum donors, staff, VIP members and some members who do have trust and important contributions to the forum.

and regarding the selection of usernames on this forum I did use my real name, because at that time the name "taufik" was already available and had to add a few characters so I spontaneously used the number 123.
The names of senior forum members are also unique, they may have certain reasons for using that name, and like you who spontaneously created a username until now, it has become your unique identity.
By the way, what is the meaning of the word "skarais"? I never found that word in my dictionary


Look at the names of the top members, they have a unique name and it becomes a permanent identity that everyone knows.

I choose my username based on a film I watched about an 18years old smart boy and very hard working. He was able to take care of himself by working part-time and making sure he finished his college education despite he has no parents.
When I first saw this topic I smile because it's a funny question but there's a point to it though.

Ryu_Ar1 has a special meaning for me because in this username there is my love for my child.
The word Ryu itself is taken from my child's middle name, as for Ar is the initials of the first name and last name while the number 1 represents the 1st child in this case.

This is indeed a deep taught, how important is the person behind the nickname is what matters most, a username is just for physical identification but what makes unification is the real identity of the personality behind the name and that tells much better of the person than the username itself, how effective we are in contributing to the forum, how committed we are, these give the real interpretation of whom and what we stand to represent, the content of what we carry is more weightier than the username we carry.

For no apparent reason to me, this is something spontaneous when in my memory it's just about someone I might still be dating. Many people have reasonable reasons why they chose a certain name for their account username, but I don't and even regret that I haven't had the chance to change this username.

I've requested a username change, but it probably hasn't been approved by the admin for years since then. But since then, I started to be proud about this username because the past shouldn't let me down for a long. Lol

I didn't think to hide my identity and used my real name as a username on bitcointalk. Though for me it does not matter much if my real name is revealed on the forum but later I thought it would have been better to choose a username that was not related to my real name. I tried to search on how to change our usernames but later I found out that it is almost impossible to get the username changed. Anyways now I am OK with my username as my real name.  

Usually here for sure came from their nickname "ekename" which means an additional name.
There's a sole purpose behind choosing your username and the main factor could be a security reason to cover anonymity, we need to pick a different username either our nickname any words, numbers, or symbol that comes up in our mind, or a combination of our real names.

But before picking a username, it might be good if you'll research it first.  Back then I saw a newbie that has been red-tagged because of accusing impersonating a well-known member here, like for example our admin theymos. 

The reason why I choose this? 
It's because it's my nickname and I know it's genuine and it's impossible to impersonate other people.

It's nice to read this and I am very happy to know your late grandfather's first name which is the same name as wy Idol. Shamsuddin is a nice name and meaningful and as you said above that sham represents charm or it will make us lucky. And another reason why I choose this username is to be unique and meaningful. And also I know that every one of us here in the forum has a dept reason why they chose thier username.

There is nothing surprising and intricate in the choice of my nickname. 2017 is the year the account was created when I came to the bitcointalk, and "m" is the first letter of the word member. Now I would carefully consider and most likely choose a different nickname, but since it so happened that I got this nickname, then let it stay that way. In general, the nickname itself is not so important (although some are still more noticeable), how important is the person who stands behind it and what contribution he makes for the benefit of the community.

I've been trading shitcoins P2P since 2015 even I still didn't know the forum. I become interested to create account here after seeing that most of the shitcoin launch there announcement thread here and also the forum marketplace for shitcoin is very rich for potential profit through p2p trading.

I use Coin_trader username so that I can easily with user here and easy to remember on P2P deals. Right now I'm still living on to this name since I'm still trading P2P using fiat on buying more crypto with just a additional fee when the deal is outside Centralized Exchange.   

Most of the time when I'm picking a username in any game that I play, I always look around and see a brand of anything that I see. There was a time where I picked a brand of Pig Food (which is very funny), there was a time where I picked a brand name of a deodorant. In the game that I'm playing right now, I used a brand name of a computer monitor. Lesser stress and easier to do because TBH, when you are always playing different kinds of games, the hardest thing aside from killing those hard bosses is to choose a username .

With regards to my name right now, I used that brand of mouse since I started using computers and laptops 13 years ago and until now that is what I'm using.

Usernames are not that complicated in this bitcoin forum. Because someone has given a user name of their choice in small letters. For example I use few characters in my username so that my identity will remain anonymous. but I find the biggest thing to notice is who or what is using the account in a similar way. Because some have created accounts with real names and some have used fictitious names. This is a complicated matter I think it will work even if you don't think about it.

In my case because obviously I play poker, online, for more than 10 years and although I am not Daniel Negreanu obviously when I had to choose the nickname I thought of "Poker Player". What surprised me is that this nickname was not already taken. Then when I saw how big is the gambling section in this forum I was even more surprised, although I think most of them play casino games and believe they can win long term with garbage strategies rather than playing games where the expected value of the bets can be positive (or have an RTP greater than 100% if preferred).

Quite often I see your post in several previous threads, when looking at your username it reminds me of my late grandfather, because my late grandfather first name is the same as your forum name "SHAMSUDDIN". Sham has a very good meaning "Candle", it is very appropriate to attach the name Sham to your school friend's girl.

Sham symbolizes charm and charisma, he is someone who has charm and wants to be the center of attention, the name Sham has a personality Expansive, visionary, adventurous, uses freedom in a constructive way. Your decision to make a username like your idol's nickname is very right, because your forum name has a very good meaning.

Hmmp to tell you honestly this username I choose is that little bit funny or sounds crazy, I choose this username it because in my school before there's one girl I like the most and my schoolmates and friends called her Shamm not her real name.  Them A while ago when A friend of mine introduced me to this forum then I decided to create a username like the nickname of my idol.

Usually I just pick out random username from the games I played especially those that I was a fan of. Not surprised that some would pick the same username as mine that is why I add some random numbers, lol. Who knows what game character will I pick in the next website I registered on anyway? Artyom, maybe?

Really happy that some users here took notice of the reference like UserU, lol.

In fact, many users here choose random names, myself included, however users choose and give their names randomly on the internet, but the name can influence as evidenced by some of the account names on this forum, the way other members perceive these users.

Of course, a common name that gives the impression of that name is important compared to making a name that is unusual and lacks appreciation from other users.

The name is symbolic, although random you must have a certain meaning, which is clearly a big name influence in your life online.

My username was picked because:
1. I pre-ordered a miner from the now defunct AMT in early 2014. After repeated delays I started looking into here in the Forum about it and definitely did Not get a Fuzzy Warm feeling about them.
2. I'm often described as "nean' -- nice but mean. Nice in that given an intelligent question, I answer as best as I can. Queries that are pointless/ones repeated endlessly in other threads, pure troll-bait, based on pure and wilful ignorance, etc. -- I let folks know exactly how off-target they are. I do not tolerate idjits.

In short I'm NotFuzzyWarm and proud of it  

It just hit me when I was thinking of mine and why not just add a "U" at the front of a generic username?

Little did I know it had a different meaning in another language many years later...

When I was about to register in this forum, I was cut up with the type of username am going to name myself. So many usernames came to my mind that got me confused to pick the right username that will suit my liking. Funny enough how I landed with Joymarsha after minutes of thinking. Should I say the name fell off my mind based on how I felt at the moment of registering in the forum cos I felt joy when registering

If i may ask you as well that why did you choose that your username? choosing a username is a choice to make and no one can hold you a question to that as long as you don't plagiarize other people's username to impersonate them, you're free to be identified by any means you choose to be called on the forum as your username, but this does not necessarily means that your username is your real identity and if it is doesn't mean you're not private that's a choice made by you, during your registration is when the first privacy about you had been kept and maintain by nit verifying your email address used, username does not makes you private or not.

OP, my little advice is to try using the search. You come to the forum in May, and you suddenly become too active and create topics that are chewed up every three months.
Now, in order not to create another mega-thread, you can read this topic. Maybe it will satisfy your curiosity.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/choice-of-username-and-peoples-perception-5414499
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60041950

There was also a point when usernames fascinated me in a way. They got me curious.

But while privacy is closely associated with Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto's identity is successfully kept hidden until now, a number of early Bitcoin adopters, developers even, and strong Bitcoin evangelists didn't really conceal their identities here.

Hal Finney got Hal and even had his own picture used as avatar. Gavin Andresen had Gavin Andresen and his face as avatar as well. Andreas Antonopoulos had aantonop and did the same with his avatar. The same goes with Dr. Adam back with his adam3us and his picture. There were probably more of them.

And then there was gmaxwell and achow101 and laszlo and more. And even admins Sirius and theymos are not really unknown outside of this forum.

Anyway, as for my username, it has something to do with the anime Darker than Black. It should've been just Darker but since it was already taken, I thought of a number combination. I ended up with 45. This, too, has an explanation, quite a long one, so...

Pretty simple — I chose my username simply because the 3 characters sort of relates to me in some way, but at the same time with it not giving away any details about my personal information. But really, I don't know why people on Bitcointalk sort of over-analyzes usernames; it's really not that important at all.

In general with my usernames outside of Bitcointalk though? I mostly just use random crap lol.

Displaying different usernames can also make it easier for you to remember other usernames, your mind will be on one name that you remember and make it easy to find it.
Most forum users have reasons for choosing a username, such as the forum name I use has the meaning "Wise".
Picking a random name has also been used by some users that don't have any meaning, behind all that is not too important to me. Positive values applied in the forum and providing knowledge to other users will make you better known even though the forum name only uses the same three characters "AAA or BBB".

Amazing, I'm laughing right here
I actually choose my username because of the person, Who introduced me to the platform, it's name is Lord OC. My desire has always be to learn as much as I can about Bitcoin, I also want to impact some newbies in my local community about this digital asset too, I couldn't think of any other name, Except the excellent Lord the one who introduced me, And my name Silva. Along with my purpose on the platform ( Bitcoin - BTC )

Funny you ... 😌
Even without the fact that different display names are used to maintain pseudonymity, just as you described, could everyone possibly use the same name?? So you won't get marveled any longer?? Shessss!
Some peeps get confused when choosing a display name and sometimes, gets cut up by whatever bugs 'em at that point; there by, making outta 'em, a name.

Well, there are very many reasons or, sometimes -- no reasons attached to the selection of a display name; in my case, my real name has 3 letters that are included in the first name, SANDRA. Hakeem came after some sort of random selection. It's unique and serves as a prolific mask to the hush- phenomenal user behind the account.

Sandra 💇

When I first came to the forum one thing that marveled me was  the different usernames displaying. Then I asked my friend and he told me that, it is to hide identity.

And a thought came to me that even though it is to hide identity and they chose the name, there must be a reason of selecting that username.

So, why do you chose that username?