That is entirely possible...perhaps even likely... accordingly there are good arguments for and against. Focusing for the moment on arguments in favour, the photonic aspect appeals to me having been fascinated by photons and their relationship with matter for some time. It is this relationship between matter and light (analogously between the substance of matter (Fiat currencies) and the inchoate nature of light (Cryptocurrencies) that interests me. One may convert the one into the other by means of a relationship not entirely dissimilar to Einsteins wonderfully simplifying equation...E=MC2. It is this relationship between thing on the one hand (Fiat currency) and 'no thing' on the other (Cryptocurrency), matter and light, that bears comparison arising from their interchangeability. Cryptocurrencies create real substance, real value and remarkable utility even though they arise from the 'nothingness' of mathematical abstraction (ex nihilo totem fit - from nothing everything comes). Add the fact that the exceptional ideas underpinning Crypti orbit the seismically important idea of a currency that incentivises the movement and flow of the currency (just as photons have to keep trucking or end up with zero mass) and it may be that the word is a candidate alternative for micro-crypti. But your points are well made and better candidate names may be only moments away.
Edit: Samsmith16 pointed out the photonic resemblance, not I.
Quantum:
At the risk of thread drift, I must point out that you are 40 IQ points above most of the bloggers here.
Also, there was nothing wonderful about Einsteins equation E=MC2. The formula for computing the energy of a moving object was already old in the time of Caesar. Energy equals mass times the square of the velocity E=MV2.
All Einstein did was expand the velocity in the formula to the speed of light, and then propose, not prove, that such a mass then becomes pure energy.
Yes, I am a Mensa member.
Well I must admit I didn't see this convo turning to quantum mechanics with a touch of subatomic physics and an overtone of astral phenomena in regards to humans relationship with currency.... But it may be better to reel her back in here...
Ok the why I see it is this title we place on the 8th decimal place may be more important then I was really thinking. We havent seen any crypto massively adopted yet, but we can all imagine the world we will all soon live in. Once crypto is more the primary means to facilitate everyday trade and purchase of coffee, gas, bills.... Bitcoin's satoshi will be more common place in the worlds language then most any other (minus Crypti's of course). People will not be asking how many dollars or euro things cost or even how many Bitcoins, it would be asked in satoshi. So when coming up with this word and its symbol it must be treated as such. Crypti may even be divisible past the 8th decimal some day but that can be dealt with then.