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Has a nickname been taken up for BTC yet?

I keep thinking 'bitch' every time I type BTC and seems like bitches might work as a slang term or nickname for BitCoins.

person A: what's that t-shirt cost?
person B: twenty bucks or one bitch

For whatever reason, I keep thinking that if BitCoins had a card it would say:

I'm real money, bitches


Discuss.

Bitcoin is perfect. Needs no slang. It's its own buzzword. No one feels compelled to call Facebook "The Face" or Twitter "The new Idiot Box"


Bitcoin? Brah, it's Bitcoin

Yeah, who knows the origins of slang, but I feel like many slang words are just shortened versions of the original word. Maybe we'll say something like: My new car cost me 10 bits.

Whenever I am writing about Bitcoin, though, I've already gotten into the habit of writing BTC, because it's quicker.

Yeah, I don't want to get into the semantics of it, but BTC is like USD - a trading notation.. not really slang, per se.. And whenever I talk about Bitcoin... I say "Bitcoin" ...Its a GREAT name..

Perhaps "coin" to refer to a whole bitcoin, and "bit" to refer to whatever fraction of a bitcoin is useful at the moment (milli, micro, etc.)

sorry - you can't use 'bits'.  it's taken.

a bit is half of a US quarter.

If a nickname is going to come up, it will on its own. I don't think that 'quid' and 'buck' were invented by some one consciously trying to come up with a hip name.

Anyone is allowed to use any word they please as long as they can communicate efficiently. I, for one, will be sticking with CoolCoin.

etymologists do.


from the following, my guess would be that we go from bitcoin to bicoy(BiK-Oi) to something like Boy with a very gentle soft 'i' sound between the 'B' and the 'oi' sound, like Bi-Oi, most likely eventually resting at 'boy' without a strong 'y' at the end.


Taken from John McWhorter's Story to Human Language Course Guide


III. Typical sound change processes.
A. Assimilation. Many of these changes seem to us to be “sloppy”
speaking. For example, in early Latin, the word for impossible is
inpossibilis, but in later Latin, the word was impossibilis. The n
changed to an m because the m sound is closer to a p than n. This
process is called assimilation. Over time, laziness created a new
word—the one we borrowed from Latin that is so proper to us today!
in-possibilis > im-possibilis
B. Consonant weakening. Similarly, over time, consonants tend to weaken
and even disappear.
1. In Latin, the word for ripe was maturus. In Old Spanish, the word
was pronounced the way it is written today: maduro; the t
weakened into a d, and the s at the end vanished. But in Castillian
Spanish today, the word is actually pronounced “mathuro,” with
the soft kind of th in mother. In Old French, the word was similar,
pronounced “mathur,” but since then, the th sound has dropped out
completely, and the word is just mûr.

I like to refer to all money, but BTC in particular as Coin... I probably played too much Mario as a kid  ::) WTF was he going to do with all those coins he was hoarding anyways? Not like I ever saw a shop in the Mushroom Kingdom.