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Quote from: nwbitcoin on March 01, 2013, 06:10:49 AM

I think its an exceptionally clever tagline, but I don't like it - its got a feeling of socialism and slight intimidation about it!

That my just be my UK background, and I'm sure it was a tagline used by one of the big unions here!

This is true. But seeing as how socialism has steamrollered over free societies over the last century, maybe there's a couple of things they're doing correctly.

To be sure, strength in numbers is a good thing when the numbers associating are doing so on a voluntary basis.

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Quote from: phelix on March 01, 2013, 12:29:27 AM

Quote from: audenx on February 28, 2013, 10:10:53 PM

Quote from: phelix on February 27, 2013, 11:32:52 AM

I don't get it. Is it a modification of something popular? Is it a play of words: cryptography/many people??

A 2011 forum discussion covers some of the layers of meaning. I'm probably not adding anything to the discussion, but here are the layers of meaning in my mind, and I like them all:

So, "strength in numbers" is a commonly used phrase in English, and although I'm no Latin scholar, the fact that the Latin phrase shows up in a bunch on Google search results suggests to me that it's a pretty old expression. Kudos to the wonderfully terse Romans. If they said it, it must be true.
Cryptography's utility is due to mathematics, so we can consider the "strength" of cryptography to be due to "numbers" (okay, that's a little simplistic for a crypto definition, but simplicity and double entendre are what's nice about the slogan).
A currency's utility is partly due to the number of people who accept it, so we can consider the currency's "strength" to be due to "numbers" of users.
Bitcoin's utility is based on both the strength of cryptography and the size of the user base, so its "strength" is due to "numbers" both ways.

My only change to the slogan would be to write it as "Strength in Num฿ers".

thanks for the insight and the link. Now that I get it I like it, too.

I think its an exceptionally clever tagline, but I don't like it - its got a feeling of socialism and slight intimidation about it!

That my just be my UK background, and I'm sure it was a tagline used by one of the big unions here!

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Quote from: audenx on February 28, 2013, 10:10:53 PM

Quote from: phelix on February 27, 2013, 11:32:52 AM

I don't get it. Is it a modification of something popular? Is it a play of words: cryptography/many people??

A 2011 forum discussion covers some of the layers of meaning. I'm probably not adding anything to the discussion, but here are the layers of meaning in my mind, and I like them all:

So, "strength in numbers" is a commonly used phrase in English, and although I'm no Latin scholar, the fact that the Latin phrase shows up in a bunch on Google search results suggests to me that it's a pretty old expression. Kudos to the wonderfully terse Romans. If they said it, it must be true.
Cryptography's utility is due to mathematics, so we can consider the "strength" of cryptography to be due to "numbers" (okay, that's a little simplistic for a crypto definition, but simplicity and double entendre are what's nice about the slogan).
A currency's utility is partly due to the number of people who accept it, so we can consider the currency's "strength" to be due to "numbers" of users.
Bitcoin's utility is based on both the strength of cryptography and the size of the user base, so its "strength" is due to "numbers" both ways.

My only change to the slogan would be to write it as "Strength in Num฿ers".

thanks for the insight and the link. Now that I get it I like it, too.

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Quote from: phelix on February 27, 2013, 11:32:52 AM

I don't get it. Is it a modification of something popular? Is it a play of words: cryptography/many people??

A 2011 forum discussion covers some of the layers of meaning. I'm probably not adding anything to the discussion, but here are the layers of meaning in my mind, and I like them all:

So, "strength in numbers" is a commonly used phrase in English, and although I'm no Latin scholar, the fact that the Latin phrase shows up in a bunch on Google search results suggests to me that it's a pretty old expression. Kudos to the wonderfully terse Romans. If they said it, it must be true.
Cryptography's utility is due to mathematics, so we can consider the "strength" of cryptography to be due to "numbers" (okay, that's a little simplistic for a crypto definition, but simplicity and double entendre are what's nice about the slogan).
A currency's utility is partly due to the number of people who accept it, so we can consider the currency's "strength" to be due to "numbers" of users.
Bitcoin's utility is based on both the strength of cryptography and the size of the user base, so its "strength" is due to "numbers" both ways.

My only change to the slogan would be to write it as "Strength in Num฿ers".

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I like "Strength in Numbers".
It's a nice double entendre that those in the BTC will understand immediately.
As a side benefit it'll probably be attractive to socialists (which if they buy into Bitcoin would actually undermine their statist goals!)

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Quote from: pumawolf on February 28, 2013, 03:26:16 AM

bitcoins buy freedom

hmm how would that go as tagline?

Bitcoin
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Quote from: Zomdifros on February 27, 2013, 09:51:07 AM

Quote from: Richy_T on February 27, 2013, 09:45:14 AM

Quote from: Timo Y on February 27, 2013, 03:41:46 AM

Strength in Numbers

I like this one.

It's also on the Casascius coins in latin: Vires in Numeris. Although there is uncertainty surrounding the correct translation: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/augustus-we-have-a-problem-38115

I don't get it. Is it a modification of something popular? Is it a play of words: cryptography/many people??

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Quote from: Richy_T on February 27, 2013, 09:45:14 AM

Quote from: Timo Y on February 27, 2013, 03:41:46 AM

Strength in Numbers

I like this one.

It's also on the Casascius coins in latin: Vires in Numeris. Although there is uncertainty surrounding the correct translation: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/augustus-we-have-a-problem-38115

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Quote from: Timo Y on February 27, 2013, 03:41:46 AM

Strength in Numbers

I like this one.

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We have been working on creating positive media attention and on getting people and businesses interested in Bitcoin here in Berlin for almost two years now.

From this experience I can say that there is precisely one idea that seems to catch everybody right away and makes them go like "Wait! What?!" and that is the idea of a world without banks. The following three catchphrases have proven to gain almost everybodies immediate attention when I was talking to people:

- Banking without banks. -
- Say goodbye to banks! -
- Unbank yourself! -

(the first one even made it to the frontpage of a greek newspaper.)

Everything else takes a lot longer to inspire people. It seems that the outlook of being able to do business without using banks or to rid society from the banks alltogether is an idea, that unites about everyone on the planet these days.

Regards,

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