Quote from: americanpegasus on October 29, 2015, 04:10:10 AM

Clickz sounds like some awful 90's rewards program like BonzaiBuddy.

Agreed it could convey that sort of association for some.

Quote from: americanpegasus on October 29, 2015, 04:10:10 AM

Inconvenient truths.

Ion sounds too much like aeon.

Didn't I write that up thread and also offer to donate the name to smooth (contingent on us finalizing a decision not to use it with my recent posts leaning very strongly to not using it)?

Why do you assume that if I wanted to pursue Ion that I couldn't compete and render Aeon to the lesser known coin (the hubris in your attitude irks me, typical of investors who think that they've been able to pool enough capital to defeat creativity and serendipity). But as I told smooth in a private message, I can't in good conscience continue with Ion because it is possible (quite likely in fact) that the idea for it was planted into my subconscious when I heard of Aeon. That still doesn't mean I am not entitled to the discovery of the shorter and more apt name, but I am not a sleazy person who has to get ahead by violating my ethics. I know I am creative and if I feel my creativity was not involved (instead a subconscious idea from someone else), then due to my desire for my creativity to be original as possible, I will prefer to donate Ion to its rightful owner.

What irks me is that after I made the offer to donate in the Aeon thread, you come over here and attack me on the name being too close. Have you no couth?

Quote from: americanpegasus on October 29, 2015, 04:10:10 AM

Sync might work, but Ford owns a trademark on that probably.

Inconvenient truth...

An automobile operating system can't normally claim trademark infringement from a crypto-currency, especially when the term being trademarked is a general common word from the English language and is already used by several software products on the internet:

http://www.uspto.gov/page/about-trademark-infringement

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Trademark infringement is the unauthorized use of a trademark or service mark on or in connection with goods and/or services in a manner that is likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistake about the source of the goods and/or services.

Btw, that is Ford Sync, not just Sync. It comes from Ford and is for vehicle media screens. There is no mistaking that with Sync.money nor syncoin.net, or perhaps we will name it "Sync network" or "Sync block chain" (domain name sync.run is already registered and could try to obtain sync.network or sync.net).

There are also BitTorrent Sync, Google Sync, Google Apps Sync, Firefox Sync, Sync | Secure Cloud Storage. Even that Sync cloud storage is not likely to be confused with a block chain network, because it is unlikely our decentralized block chain 2.0 would provide a bulk data storage functionality (and certainly not a centralized one as is that Sync cloud storage). BitTorrent Sync appears to be decentralized file transfer, but again this is BitTorrent Sync, not just Sync and file syncing isn't a competitive category to a block chain. Also with this many competitors on the use of the name Sync, it appears clear that no one can claim broad infringement categories. It appears the term Sync has been pretty much relegated to the public domain. If Ford was going to sue for infringement then these other uses of Sync would not likely exist and be establishing a precedent that weakens any claim Ford would have had.

Any more FUD from Monero/Aeon folk today?