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I have seen this written both ways, and I was curious are they both acceptable or is there a preferred way that "cool people" use?

I just created my first site (www.bitwhistle.com) for BitCoins or Bitcoins whichever the case may be, and I want to at least make it appear like I know something about the topic the site is about.

Thanks,

To levitate is hard, showing someone else is really hard.

If this is your goal, use "Bitcoin".

BitCoin is what the people who don't know anything at all about the topic use.

Try to find "BitCoin" here: https://bitcoin.org

Use a capital 'B' when talking about the protocol. Bitcoin.

Use a lowercase 'b' when talking about the currency side of it. bitcoin.

I could be wrong! This is what I have come to learn lol.

You should definitely use Bitcoin because BitCoin is usually what people that have something against it seem to prefer to contrive it a bit.
But even Satoshi has used BitCoin at some point, as the folder were the "wallet.dat" file is located is indeed with that different spelling:
C:\Users\YourUserName\Appdata\Roaming\BitCoin (Vista and 7).

Bitcoin is name of the system, the protocol. There is no multiple of this, i.e. there are no Bitcoins.
bitcoin is the unit, of which you can have more than one, e.g. 3 bitcoins.
"BitCoin(s)" or abbreviating it as "BC" (instead of BTC) is for retards :)

I can confirm this is true but most cases bitcoin does well for both cases

Hmm I suppose there is no big difference for common users. For example, if I use "btc" in conversation what will you think?

Personally I prefer "Bitcoin". I've been here a fairly long time now and that's what most people tend to use.

^ Agreed. Of course if you start a sentence with either word it should have a capital "B". ;D

IMHO don't really matter, u can use first option and second one.

It's the Bitcoin symbol where the real confusion begins :)

I personally like BTC best (like the most commonly used Bitcoin logo (https://i.imgur.com/Zmmdq2Q.png)) but it's not an official unicode character yet.
The best way to display or use this character yourself is probably Font Awesome (http://fontawesome.io/icon/btc/). Looks great and works pretty much everywhere.

A good alternative is ฿ (unicode 3647), it works everywhere but the disadvantage is it's also the symbol for the Thai Baht. Ƀ (unicode 579) is also used sometimes.

"cool people" prefer Bᴉtɔoᴉn

right now it is Bitcoin but soon it will be bitcoin

Yup, for example:

"I believe that Bitcoin will still exist in 2050"

"I just bought 500 bitcoins"

EDIT: It seems Cryptsy uses "BitCoin" and "LiteCoin" but Dogecoin is just "Dogecoin" without the capital C. Hmm...

I always enjoy references to either "The Bitcoin" or "The BitCoin" myself.

i prefer BitCoin

This.

People who use "BitCoin" or "bitCoin" have not educated themselves on the topic and come across as noobs or clueless.  (Unless of course it is an auto-correct, then it is a tech issue that isn't caught).

Edit: the paper spells it bitcoin or Bitcoin, so I think that is pretty definitive.

loled.

Write it any way that you want. bitCoin is based on decentralization. There is no central authority that enforces any particular name.

Anyway, this topic is moot. The correct spelling is 比特币. You'll see.

;D

The white paper which kicked things off says Bitcoin.

"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

In all fairness it should be Gigabytecoin given current prices.

This would probably be better set out as a poll, but my two satoshis goes with Bitcoin. As others have already said, BitCoin is how a newcomer would likely write it.

Also I feel that BitCoin suggests that it is a physical coin, like a Bit Coin.

i usually just use BTC lol

I think it is Bitcoin. Guess when I joined, I just saw most people typing it like such.

Bitcoin maybe
many people typing like that

I always use Bitcoin, but I suppose its always up to preference, I just think its a bit easier to type out Bitcoin than BitCoin which requires an extra shift press for us lazy people.

The version on this site looks too ugly for me. It needs better anti-aliasing.

Bitcoin : Protocol, paiement system.. The stuff in a whole is Bitcoin.

A unit is a bitcoin..

Some can have bitcoins, but have Bitcoins is not a correct syntax..  can't have multiple time the protocol.. in fact, no one own this protool ;)


The letter "c" is never in caps, that does'nt make sense !

Cryptsy still has it as "BitCoin" on its list,  but most other places its Bitcoin or bitcoin

Occurrence of "BitCoin" in someone's writing is generally a safe way to detect scammers and retards. :D

I believe it's BitCom

Putting a capital in the middle of a word goes against all sensible spelling rules. We generally understand compound words like grandmother and electromagnetic without using such tricks.

The only place where I somewhat tolerate it, is systems like programming languages where you need complex names without spaces, for example FooCounter = InitValue + SomeOtherValue. Even there, you usually have the option to use underscores - or simply rely on the old idea of compound words, like "foocounter" meaning a counter that counts foos.

I prefer BitCoin because that is the way the wallet.dat is and it sounds better. although the client is Bitcoin so hmm maybe that is correct we will never know