I woke up thinking ‘interdata’ (as an analogy to interstate and internet) and ‘interfuge’, then I realized Interbits is much more catchy, three instead of four syllables, and with mass market appeal. And the naturally fit token name is also catchy and obviously ibits.
I certainly prefer it to Hyperdata. Though compared to Oodles (leaving aside for a moment your earlier argument against it), I would perhaps judge it to have less mass-market appeal. While I do quite like it, Interbits is still more of a technical name. As you remark
The mass market website is likely to be one of the more popular DApps, so could be Uncommons, Bleep, Keeper, Immortal and/or Oodles. Users will arrive at one of those mass market DApps, and when they join they will receive some tokens. Many third parties can produce DApps, so eventually there may not be one monolithic name which presents to the mass market of users.
Netbits would the decentralized ledger project and the currency name. Most users would only come to know the name from the name of the tokens they receive.
Currently I like Uncommons for the Wikipedia, Medium, and Reddit clones1. For a gaming portal I like Oodles or Immortal. For a Youtube clone, I like Uncommons, Bleep or Oodles. Keeper or Stor could be for a Dropbox clone for file archival and hosting. When I wrote this blog, I had also registered for example stor.app
.
Interbits strongly associates with Internet.
which itself can be construed as a bit cold and technical, seeing as of course it's commonly abbreviated to "the net" or "web".
I think you’re correct. Nobody will get the meaning of the ‘inter-’ prefix as opposed to ‘intra-’.
I think we should revert to my idea from 2015: Netbits
That averts the potential trademark issues as well.
It’s simple and direct to the point. The currency name becomes the same as the project name.
The downside is it falls into the sea of similar portmanteaus combining ‘bit’ with another word. In 2015, I had purchased the net.cash
domain for $500 and am still embarrassed about that. However, the singular netbit
isn’t meaningful. And webbits
or webits
has an ambiguous spelling and pronunciation (is it “we bits or web bits”?). So which other portmanteaus that end with ‘bits’ would be meaningful? I can think of corny ones such as ourbits
, mybits
or newbits
. Whereas there are numerous non-corny, meaningful portmanteaus that begin with ‘bit’ such a bitnet
, bitoken
, bitbabies
, bitkitties
, etc.. If we transpose to for example kittybits
we probably think of the feces of a kitten or exploding a kitten into pieces.
I registered the following available domains:
$ 6 netbits.cc
$ 4 netbits.me
$11 netbits.id
Also offered for sale:
$2352 netbits.net (immediately purchase, payable in BTC)
?? netbits.org
I like ibits. Concise and modern-looking, with a suggestion of "itsy bitsy"(I promise I arrived at this before I read it amongst the humorous old name ideas!) , so an implied fun element to it as well as a functional one.
The currency name netbits
seems to work just as well (two syllables) and has a more explicit meaning.
To me, the highlighted text suggests it isn't really decentralised? Open to being gamed by the "volunteer moderators". Who would choose them, I wonder. So, for me, the project has a big question mark over it. A boon for yours.
Kim Dotcom never gave me the impression he was capable in the decentralization technological sphere.
Btw, there was already a Netbit which now has a marketcap of zero.
1 There are many features missing from these well known websites. For example, Wikipedia’s climate data tables lack information about how humidity and wind speed affect the “feels like” heat index temperature to give a more accurate understanding of what a climate actually feels like.
It was interesting to revisit that part of the thread
While Netbits does lose out on ultimate uniqueness, it does seem to fulfill the function of being catchy, while at the same time is acceptable in a "serious" sense; coinmarketcap etc, and expresses its links to the internet and the token. On this score, it will probably be difficult to beat, considering how many good names are already taken. And it's only two syllables.
I tried thinking of names that begin with "Bits" rather than end with it, but the cupboard seemed to be bare of original ones. All too easy to get corny and/or desperate.
Right, I see. So it's likely to be quite flexible in its evolution.
Well for me personally, I'm with you for Uncommons as the Wiki/Medium/Reddit clones, then Immortal for gaming, with Keeper for archiving. I'm undecided between Bleep and Oodles for the Youtube clone (depending on how important the emphasis should be placed on communicating its uncensored nature). Out of the two I'd go for the combined catchiness and allusion to cornucopia of Oodles.
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My 18 year old daughter prefers
CRED
overnetbits
. She said it is easier to remember and vocalize. Her perspective is from a social media user, not from our niche altcoin speculator markets. I forgot to ask her aboutibits
, which is more personalized “i+bits” connoting perhaps “my bits”.Remember I started from trying to think of a better project name for the decentralized ledger separate from any mainstream social media dApps that might be built on top of it. So my brainstorm progression was Hyperdata + CRED → Interdata + ?→Interbits + ibits → Netbits + netbits.
Perhaps Hyperdata + CRED is still the best. Problem again is that people associate hyper- with fast and not the more generalized meaning which applies in this case.
The project and ledger name is really a different target demographic (speculators and geek developers) from the mainstream dApps.
I have new idea: dData
dApps need a decentralized ledger. Seems that ledger should be name dData. Seems to perfectly hit the target demographic for the project and ledger name.
P.S. I’ve been busy collecting information for a new blog: https://steemit.com/computing/@anonymint/parallelization-obsoletes-the-desktop-computer
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I haven’t ever lost enthusiasm for CRED... Only question I would raise for dData is how it’s vocalised. dData just sounds like data. Or would it be “d-data”? How might someone know when just reading it? Why not dLedger or dLog etc?
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I read it as "d-data", but whether, say, non-English speakers would I don't know.
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I agree dLedger may be better than dData. I registered some of the
dledger.*
domains. Thanks for the feedback.Regarding your other question, I analyzed Hashgraph in part 2 of the blog series you posted to.
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Cheers mate. BTW don’t know if I’ve said it but your posts and insights are very much appreciated
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I do myself too. Did she give you feedback on any of the other recent name suggestions; "Oodles" for instance?
Agree.
For me, I think johhnyflynn's dLedger, just edges it for appealing to "speculators and geek developers". A pretty good one for a combined project and ledger name. If that were chosen, would you still use ibits for the token name, as it is catchy?
I thought of another too for a social media / token name (but haven't trawled previous posts to check if it's been used as a suggestion already), which is:
Grats or Gratz (with perhaps GRTZ as a ticker) which implies a gift as in "grateful"; "Grazie", Italian for "thank you", and also an informal shortening of "congratulations", celebrating a gift of tokens for content etc.
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