What to call 0.001 BTC? (5 BTC Bounty) - page 3.

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Quote from: organofcorti on March 08, 2014, 05:56:16 PM

Quote from: xyzxyzxyz on March 08, 2014, 03:51:05 PM

Bitcoin needs a cockney rhyming slang for all the statoshis. In cockney £20 is a score, £25 is a pony, £100 is a tonne, £500 is a monkey and £1000 is a grand.

Can you explain the rhymes here? I can't figure them out.

These are Cockney slang but not rhyming.

20: score. a very old word for 20. e.g. "threescore years and ten" is from the bible.

25: pony. no one knows for sure. some say it's because an indian 25 rupee note had a pony on it, but I've never seen anyone back that up with a picture or even any evidence that this note existed.

100: ton. tonnage is the measure of capacity of a ship (so volume not weight). 100 cubic feet are in one maritime ton.

500: monkey. again no one knows. again said to be from a 500 rupee note but no one has an image of one.

1000: grand. actually from american slang of around 1915. $1000 was "a grand sum".

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Toshi

0.001= 1 Toshi
0.002= 2 Toshi's
etc...

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Dorian. Lol JK.

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Bits, Mini-bits, Milli-bits, Micro-bits. Nano-bits

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Put your trust in MATH.

Call it a shine.

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Quote from: MelMan2002 on March 08, 2014, 01:57:35 PM

Should call 0.001 btc a "gox". Why? Because it is representative of the highest percentage of coins that one could expect to get back from gox.

Hmmmm a sound concept Grin

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Quote from: organofcorti on March 08, 2014, 05:56:16 PM

Quote from: xyzxyzxyz on March 08, 2014, 03:51:05 PM

Bitcoin needs a cockney rhyming slang for all the statoshis. In cockney £20 is a score, £25 is a pony, £100 is a tonne, £500 is a monkey and £1000 is a grand.

Can you explain the rhymes here? I can't figure them out.

Quite interesting, I can't seem to grasp it either. Care to explain?

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Quote from: xyzxyzxyz on March 08, 2014, 03:51:05 PM

Bitcoin needs a cockney rhyming slang for all the statoshis. In cockney £20 is a score, £25 is a pony, £100 is a tonne, £500 is a monkey and £1000 is a grand.

Can you explain the rhymes here? I can't figure them out.

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Dorian all the way

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call it a TIT!!! hey buddy just mined a TIT today. Send me a TIT . or for 0.01 you could say tittes Grin

ha ha ha No but serious send me 23 Titties to 1DsQoZVSEaGTkPNCGmZJZruy1F9R5C2JCi thank you in advance

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Bitcoin needs a cockney rhyming slang for all the statoshis. In cockney £20 is a score, £25 is a pony, £100 is a tonne, £500 is a monkey and £1000 is a grand.

How about naming 10 satoshi is a Finney, 100 satoshi is a Zimmerman, 1000 is a Szabo, 10,000 a Nakamoto etc

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Should call 0.001 btc a "gox". Why? Because it is representative of the highest percentage of coins that one could expect to get back from gox.

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I like the Dorian suggestion I heard on Reddit.

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In holiday we trust

Thit or tit

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Quote from: LMGTFY on March 08, 2014, 11:27:05 AM

Quote from: cryptmebro on March 08, 2014, 11:21:54 AM

Quote from: LMGTFY on March 08, 2014, 10:56:47 AM

Quote from: apsvinet on March 08, 2014, 10:49:03 AM

I suppose.
But still, had we had those words chosen by members of an online forum from the start of bitcoins, we wouldn't have had anything to say against it today to be honest, our brains would've adapted to that just like we do to the decimals. But changing it now? No thanks.

To be honest, I think if Bitcoin had used arbitrary words I probably would have walked away without digging deeper - "the rest of the (finance) world copes just fine with thousands and 0.001, why should I have to learn some hacker jargon in order to use Bitcoin?" (Obviously some learning is necessary, but we should aim to reduce it to what's necessary, not what's cute or what we think is easy to understand).

"Hacker" jargon....really?...you sound like a fool. Hacking has nothing to do with bitcoin, or a name for 0.001 BTC

A hacker is someone - in IT - who "hacks" (creates and modifies) code (as opposed to a "cracker", who breaks into IT systems). Regardless, this is about perceptions - not necessarily our perceptions, but the perceptions of people not yet using Bitcoin. Jargon is off-putting. Foolish, even.

This this and this again. Quoting to show that I agree, lol.
You won't get people interested if you're gonna use silly made up words to describe fractions of your currency.

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Quote from: cryptmebro on March 08, 2014, 11:21:54 AM

Quote from: LMGTFY on March 08, 2014, 10:56:47 AM

Quote from: apsvinet on March 08, 2014, 10:49:03 AM

I suppose.
But still, had we had those words chosen by members of an online forum from the start of bitcoins, we wouldn't have had anything to say against it today to be honest, our brains would've adapted to that just like we do to the decimals. But changing it now? No thanks.

To be honest, I think if Bitcoin had used arbitrary words I probably would have walked away without digging deeper - "the rest of the (finance) world copes just fine with thousands and 0.001, why should I have to learn some hacker jargon in order to use Bitcoin?" (Obviously some learning is necessary, but we should aim to reduce it to what's necessary, not what's cute or what we think is easy to understand).

"Hacker" jargon....really?...you sound like a fool. Hacking has nothing to do with bitcoin, or a name for 0.001 BTC

A hacker is someone - in IT - who "hacks" (creates and modifies) code (as opposed to a "cracker", who breaks into IT systems). Regardless, this is about perceptions - not necessarily our perceptions, but the perceptions of people not yet using Bitcoin. Jargon is off-putting. Foolish, even.

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Quote from: LMGTFY on March 08, 2014, 10:56:47 AM

Quote from: apsvinet on March 08, 2014, 10:49:03 AM

I suppose.
But still, had we had those words chosen by members of an online forum from the start of bitcoins, we wouldn't have had anything to say against it today to be honest, our brains would've adapted to that just like we do to the decimals. But changing it now? No thanks.

To be honest, I think if Bitcoin had used arbitrary words I probably would have walked away without digging deeper - "the rest of the (finance) world copes just fine with thousands and 0.001, why should I have to learn some hacker jargon in order to use Bitcoin?" (Obviously some learning is necessary, but we should aim to reduce it to what's necessary, not what's cute or what we think is easy to understand).

"Hacker" jargon....really?...you sound like a fool. Hacking has nothing to do with bitcoin, or a name for 0.001 BTC

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What about 1 Bitty?

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Quote from: LMGTFY on March 08, 2014, 10:56:47 AM

Quote from: apsvinet on March 08, 2014, 10:49:03 AM

I suppose.
But still, had we had those words chosen by members of an online forum from the start of bitcoins, we wouldn't have had anything to say against it today to be honest, our brains would've adapted to that just like we do to the decimals. But changing it now? No thanks.

To be honest, I think if Bitcoin had used arbitrary words I probably would have walked away without digging deeper - "the rest of the (finance) world copes just fine with thousands and 0.001, why should I have to learn some hacker jargon in order to use Bitcoin?" (Obviously some learning is necessary, but we should aim to reduce it to what's necessary, not what's cute or what we think is easy to understand).

I suppose you're right, it's not exactly inviting if arbitrary words were used. When I think
about it I come to the same conclusion as you did, I probably would've just walked away
as well. Good point, +1.

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Quote from: apsvinet on March 08, 2014, 10:49:03 AM

I suppose.
But still, had we had those words chosen by members of an online forum from the start of bitcoins, we wouldn't have had anything to say against it today to be honest, our brains would've adapted to that just like we do to the decimals. But changing it now? No thanks.

To be honest, I think if Bitcoin had used arbitrary words I probably would have walked away without digging deeper - "the rest of the (finance) world copes just fine with thousands and 0.001, why should I have to learn some hacker jargon in order to use Bitcoin?" (Obviously some learning is necessary, but we should aim to reduce it to what's necessary, not what's cute or what we think is easy to understand).

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