I am interested to hear your thoughts or rebuttal to my logic on Bits.
I'm not arguing with it on a logical basis. I can see that, amongst other points, as you say, it "works very well as an upgrade/offshoot to Bitcoin". It has utility, but to me seems lacking a commercial hook.
...Why is Cha-Ching a negative for a third currency unit? It doesn't cost us anything to have 3 currency units instead of only 1 or 2. Cha-ching is the sound of a cash register. It is synonymous with exchanging cash or earning money. I think it comes more from my generation (when the cash registers actually made that sound), but even my 25 year old filipina asian gf (in Philippines never been abroad) had heard the term, but she wasn't quite sure what it meant. She hears it in a social context, "yeah like cha-CHINNNNGGGGG" is what said to me. I asked her what it meant and she didn't know. But it has catchy recall powers...
True, it's catchy and I can't argue with the sound of the cash register, but to me it didn't leap out and have instant appeal - a personal thing, and I understand I might well be out-voted. If nothing else emerges soon then, yes, as a third currency unit, but I prefer Chan or ch'an. Unless time is pressing to come up with this third one, I just feel that something better could bubble up soon?
By comparison, the second I saw Sync and Yoobits, they immediately grabbed me - so too with BitSync.
I too would also place Yoobits over Coolbits.
...So if the ¥Ƀ part translates ok, it could make could make for some nice marketing....
That I like.
...Switch was a debit card in the uk, but got renamed to Maestro (owned by MasterCard)...
Yes, I recall those.