Quote from: f2000 on November 04, 2015, 05:36:53 PM

Ah, so you think the ¥ symbol could cause problems? Pity, I thought you were onto something. I know you are moving away from this, but I thought I would post it up anyway. Just a rough draft (nothing is aligned), was trying see what it would look like.

Designed the way you have illustrated, I no longer think it is a potentially illegal/bannable use of ¥. I did not visualize what you guys were thinking. But I am not sure it is awesome or even just exceptional (depends what we are comparing it to).

Yoobits sounds great (but so do others below), beginning with Y and oo is unique/aesthetic, and the currency symbol as you have illustrated it is good (although I am not sure if two letters is desirable or even that unique/catchy ... Aeon might use a two-letter currency symbol), but there are two counter-balancing issues to consider:

Do we really want the Bits theme, and if so do we want Bits theme for both the business and social oriented currency units?
Do we really want confusion withYoubits, Yourbits, uBits, Mybits, Mebits, iBits, eBits, Selfbits, Iownbits, Ezbits, Lotabits, Cybits, Cyberbits, Netbits, Meminebitys, Tidbits, Nubits, Bitsme, Bitsy, Bitpay, Bitr, Bitz, etc?

I think if are going to do any portmanteau with Bits, then Netbits makes the most sense and it was on my original poll and only got 1 vote.

Quote from: f2000 on November 04, 2015, 05:36:53 PM

A little off topic, but is BitTorrent popular where you in the world (ie your gf or her friends use it)? Plenty of kids here in the uk (Both male & female) are very familiar with it and I get asked questions quite a lot by students, so Im guessing they are accustomed to the word Bit plus it has the double meaning for being a bit of something (like you said in an earlier post).

I will see if I can think of anything else worth posting tonight.

Bittorrent is not used by the masses, only by male geeks.

(Btw, I have never used it because it requires me to download a client and do setup, even though I did try to suggest to them many years ago at the Bitorrent.org forum archive on how to improve the tit-for-tat economic model of Bittorrent. I would never release crypto that didn't run in the browser.)

Bits works for male geeks. For everyone else, it has no meaning at all, other than "Oh yeah that Bitcoin thing" for those in developed countries that have been bombarded with the media.

We can use Bits for the business currency, since the business world is dominated by males. But bits doesn't make much sense to me (it isn't natural nor implicit) in the social world. If we a portmanteau with Bits for the social oriented currency, then the combining word should make the portmanteau unique (no variants) and give it meaning that regular people will grasp, e.g.:

netbits

But netbits doesn't mean money either. To a regular person, it implies a technical term for the internet. See bits has no apt meaning.

The advantage is then it connects with the overall Bits theme, but do we even want to go with a Bits theme where there is so much dilution and copying of the Bits theme? We have the risk that by promoting Bits, we end up promoting Bitcoin (I know I argued the opposite, but generally speaking markets tend to gel around a market leader when there is confusion, due to expediency and efficiency).

However since we have free reign especially with the social oriented currency unit, we can choose any name we like that we think would be the most catchy, meaningful, and brandable for the masses.

Ching	(or Chan)
Clickz	(or Clicks, Clix, Klicks, etc)
Coolbits	(or Coolcash)
Dibs	(e.g. "who takes first dibs on that?")
Dodats	(or Doodats)
Mojos	(or Moji)
Yoobits	(or Youbits, Yourbits, uBits, Mybits, Mebits, iBits, eBits, Selfbits, Iownbits, NuBits, Bitz, Bitstar, Bitspay, Bitsy, Bitr)

Note Dabs did not do well as a cypto-project name, but I presume it was marketed to the speculators only. And Dabs doesn't mean anything.

Btw, I realized that I had the same Younits idea in 2014 and dismissed it because the masses don't know what a unit is. We are getting to the point where we are recycling old throught processes. We need to try to move forward and make a decision. I have introduced some new ideas and I am vigorously scouring my mental database to see if I can think of any creative alternatives.