Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WbwC6-0003Rn-Sh for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:10:22 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-ee0-f49.google.com ([74.125.83.49]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WbwC3-0004ft-H3 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:10:22 +0000 Received: by mail-ee0-f49.google.com with SMTP id c41so3100846eek.8 for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:10:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6sw7YZVirVHfqP27zsfKx2FYekvmah1tiMZjU+AC7pY=; b=MadoGJvnyAnmozVVLms92STB/0g347fur+Aqg9/4xt4MqHv3b9CszJeswr4/vtm6sm Q/RCnNIcMqnveeQ5+H6iEh24VhvNXg6BSNWKCFqdN/vJbyFBYOND1kIzfcvioZEpCVSd g22E3WCzUfv4mrtZ6bLPKf0k62RjRgJDMGUjLtTFPUP+vj/rTwA9vcZTiIsF72VxOFJt DoLizS8n3U8NWxNcFntdovG28DSk16dNaxRGQlf3TFN2nJVrfjkkGm3vvAKdmdb5qsu3 BzAXYkQ9tkWUb/NQ+eKNp2EQhilDqIvpA7RiLUqCGN7zYD7LZBwzFecWbQTgzkMy53Hg gfIw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnAdCbIwQkXf0AIutlq5wWUQ0MuRe8b9ZERdF0mbXWOiZ4PRUNb3p8ELoajlcYzsam9Pqpp X-Received: by 10.15.73.134 with SMTP id h6mr40220171eey.3.1398017412928; Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:10:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tetra.site ([91.239.236.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id bc51sm96509629eeb.22.2014.04.20.11.10.11 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53540D82.7060601@gk2.sk> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:10:10 +0200 From: Pavol Rusnak User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" References: <3A69904F-0A3D-42E9-9DE7-067874E710BB@bitsofproof.com> <5353ECDF.6090903@gmail.com> <5353F63F.90307@gmail.com> <87BC4D35-2E10-40A0-B2FE-4C49184C0565@swipeclock.com> In-Reply-To: <87BC4D35-2E10-40A0-B2FE-4C49184C0565@swipeclock.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1WbwC3-0004ft-H3 Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] "bits": Unit of account X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:10:23 -0000 On 04/20/2014 06:56 PM, Mike Caldwell wrote: > I consider overload/conflict with existing meanings of "bit" as a non-issue for typical population at large. So far I have not seen any reasonable name except for "bit". I also tried to come up with something else (e.g.naka, toshi, etc.) to avoid the confusion with bits used in computing, but I was not satisfied with neither of them. Then I though about "credit", which is more-or-less established in video games and sci-fi literature and people are already used to sentences like "Not enough credits" or "This item costs 10000 credits", because of this. Also it would be particularly funny if these sci-fi pieces predicted the future by actually defining it. ;-) Another options might be "cubit" or "crebit", but the latter is sometimes used as a compound word meaning both "credit" and "debit" such as in "You can use crebit cards here". Also this Wikipedia source is a list of sometimes rather funny possibilites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_currencies -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol Rusnak