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As I was completing a survey about an hour ago, there was some mention about the distinction between Bitcoin spelt with capital B, and bitcoin with a lowercase b. Although I have heard about this before, and I usually pay a lot of attention to spelling and punctuation, I have to admit that I have totally forgotten about this.

When we talk about Bitcoin as a blockchain, payment method, or a service, we are supposed to spell the word with an uppercase B.

Here is an example:
My best friend doesn't see the advantages of Bitcoin.

When we talk about the currency or mention numbers and quantitates of the asset, the word should be spelt with a lowercase b.

Here is an example:
I sent my best friend 1 bitcoin as a birthday gift. 


Do you pay attention to this while you are posting on the forum?

I don't really see any difference between the two options. In my opinion, you are free to write as you see fit.

It is writing style but I would choose the bitcoin and BTC.

There are derivatives: Bitcoin, BITCOIN, BTC and I think readers can understand what it is.

In orders of good, my choice will be:
- bitcoin
- BTC
- BTC.

I don't like Bitcoin or BITCOIN.

No I don't, but yeah this is correct.

Bitcoin: The title.
bitcoin: The unit.
BTC: ISO code.
₿: The symbol.

These are the least grammatically issues we have on this forum, though...  :P

As a Russian speaking person, I do not pay much attention on Bitcoin and bitcoin. Russian grammar does not have that kind of differences, and during English classes I dont remember that teacher put much attention on that kind of things (or same as you, "I have already forgotten about this").

When I write post, I try to concentrate more on tenses while doing Russian>English translation in my head.
After your topic, I think I would pay a bit more attention to Bitcoin/bitcoin, but frankly speaking, when I re-read my post, I wont click on edit button to correct this.

Yes, because here in the forum, doesn't matter how you use the word bitcoin in your post. And everyone understands what you are referring to. But maybe, if you are writing a professional article to be published, you need to be aware what you are writing as most people that may read the article don't have the knowledge what you're talking about even for us is considered a popular term and also to observe the proper use of this word following grammar rules.

Perhaps you are referring to the survey stated on this thread Public perception of Bitcoin as payment method (survey) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5288414.0), I've also noticed that and it's one thing that I'll remember on his survey.
I'm planning to ask this matter to the OP of the survey, I'm glad you open a discussion about regarding it.
Your explanation made me understand it much better.

Yes I had an attention when to use Bitcoin from bitcoin recently, but that time I do not know what's the difference between the two.

I don't know Russian but I think it is general rule for common noun and proper noun

Bitcoin: proper noun
bitcoin: common noun

BITCOIN: Capitalization of all characters (bad use)
BTC: can be accepted as acronym of Bitcoin (as proper noun)
btc: can be accepted as acronym of bitcoin (as common noun)

There are misconceptions about Bitcoin and bitcoin but the beauty of this is; forum members don't care about this grammatical errors around the forum but reading with best understanding. If i can recall currently, there was such thread in the past that got my ass fixed with these two. Bitcoin--- The name of the technology and bitcoin---- the currency; to my understanding. Sincerely, thousands of network users do used these words interchangeably both lower ranks and higher ranks  :D.

I pay attention on it when I'm still new here but now it was listed on keyboard and I don't what is the the proper word to use as long as I'm pertaining to a same subject and I can express my thought in my statement. This is an open forum so any minor grammar especially on this case that didn't affect the message is not that a big deal.

i believe that we capitalize the first letter only when we want to refer to the technology or protocol (for example the Bitcoin protocol) otherwise if it is to be referred to as the payment method or the currency the lower case is used.
so technically your example "My best friend doesn't see the advantages of Bitcoin." means your friend used the protocol not bitcoin as a currency. like if he created an altcoin based on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.msg28#msg28
A second post of satoshi in this forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6.msg29#msg29

I think the bitcoin creator chose bitcoin for bitcoin.

B (capitalized) is for proper name of forum (Bitcoin forum), blockchain (Bitcoin blockchain), a product (Bitcoin ATM).

I think either Capital or small letter B to use the word bitcoin it has the same meaning and understanding. If you are going to give different meaning between this letter B ,then it will only add to the complexity of people to understand bitcoin easily. Also, I think everyone is free to write the word bitcoin either in capital or small letter B.

Well they are actually the same. However, I also get your point here that the lower case b and uppercase B for bitcoin has different in meaning when use. Bitcoin is a noun that could be use to name like Bitcoin system.

bitcoin is a unit. 1 bitcoin.

I think this is the only difference OP wanting to pass on but because the forum is not strict when it comes to the use of grammar and not all here are native english speaker so those words had been use interchangeably. Am I right?

Wrong

BTC isn't the proper ISO code for Bitcoin, it's XBT. In finance, the X means the currency is stateless, it complies with the standards in the markets. (To compare, a gold sticker is XAU) That's why you mainly see exchange platforms using XBT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217#X_currencies

The Bitcoin symbol wasn't "BTC " or "BTC" at the beginning, it was"BC" (the very first Bitcoin logo was a gold coin with the letter "BC". Google "Bitcoin BC" you will find it).
BTC, I don't remember very well how it came about. It seems to me that it is after a discussion on this forum for the bitcoin-client.

edit: see the link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=41.0


The Bitcoin's Blockchain should be written with a B capitalized. Any other blockchain with b (they just copy the name on the top of that).

I have to admit that I use Bitcoin or BTC in most cases, while I used to use BTC. I don't think it's that important to most users because we know what it's about, but grammatically and from a technological perspective it makes sense to use B and b in different contexts.

It is good to clarify some things, because many remain confused by the fact that it is exactly the same thing BC, BTC or XBT if we take into account the complete history and everything that is happening today.

Frankly, I personally didn't know about any such things! So you will never see that I have used an uppercase B while writing bitcoin within a sentence. But this is something new I have learnt today! We all are aware of symbol and codes though but definitely the bifurcation between title and unit was not known to many! Quite frankly, I don't care as long as bitcoin price is holding its ground because all we care about to get rich!

I remember reading a thread about it some time ago but I haven't really paid much attention to how I write it. I often wrote it with capital letter as a proper name unless I forgot about it.

I often misspell things and don't use proper punctuation because I'm clumsy and easily distracted.


I like this definition. Some deseve to be written like this: bSV bLOCKCHAIN. ;)

Thanks for clearing it for us who got confused about it.
For me it didn't matter because when we right Bitcoin with capital or just lower case we automatically understand it here in the forum,
So I didn't pay too much attention to it.

IMHO, I think because of most users don't care on these small mistakes is because they are not aware that these 2 (Bitcoin and bitcoin) are different.
I'm sure some of them will be using these 2 words on their sentences in a correct way since they are now aware about these fact.
It's better if more terminologies will be shared here to atleast correct some misconceptions.

I normally use the capital letter for the Bitcoin Network and the small for the coin/currency. I guess I interchange the words sometimes, probably when I'm starting a sentence with bitcoin (currency), When I use the Bitcoin(Network) multiple times after the beginning of a sentence, If it's a typo/mistake or when I didn't know/remember.

typing b or in small letter looks informal but Bitcoin should start with a capital B

Sometimes my device always starts typing in capital form and sometimes it isn't or sometimes I accidentally push the caps button making them capitalize but at the end I didn't care at all if what is the proper way to write btc in different situations .

 There's also a debate of that before but it was by using an symbol BTC instead of typing btc but I still end up typing btc for easy typing . Thanks for this anyway @op this is informative tho ;)  .

I haven't really, I thought they were the same though it depends upon how it is delivered. If you are just having a normal and casual conversation I don't think that it will matter but if your are writing a formal document or anything related to Bitcoin then that's the time that you should properly address the use of Pascal case. Thank you for that information, I have not known the difference of bitcoin from Bitcoin until today. What I thought about this is when it is just a normal conversation, you can use any of it just make sure that the message will not be changed.

Even me, I didn't matter about the small and big letter b in Bitcoin because all I know that it has the same meaning but it's good to know more about bitcoin and  the meaning behind it's symbol.

I think it's a very slightly difference between the two words, that doesn't change the concept or create misunderstanding. 
I mean, people in real word will never care about a difference like that. The same, it seems apply also here on forum ;)

I'm sure many of them don't know the difference between uppercase and lowercase in the meaning of the word Bitcoin or bitcoin and so on.
There are no firm and definite rules about this, but it makes us realize that these differences have different meanings and make us not confused and understand the meaning of these differences.  ;D

Seriously !!!!  :o :o :o :o
Little did I know that there is so much difference between Bitcoin and bitcoin. Thanks for sharing.

One must have a literary basis to really understand the use of upper and lowercase letters to pronounce new terms. I just follow the formal writing style that is widely used in various general articles in my local to mention the type of currency inserted in the sentence.

Absolutely, I think it's really important to distinguish the two, it always makes a point more clear.


It's not just style, style means just a preference, while correct writing helps to avoid confusion. For example, without this convention, the phrase "Satoshi's Bitcoin" could mean either Satoshi's protocol and  code, or Satoshi's coins that he mined in early days. Also, "BITCOIN" is never used, all upper case is usually understood as an equivalent of yelling in written speech.

Hi man, thanks for the information. however this is not really that important, but if everyone knew about this, it could have been used well.

I think we learn and discover new things daily. Although this topic is still subject to deep learning and critical survey. But I see a point in what you posted and information has been disseminated. Kudos to you

Lmao. If we are talking about the English language, you kinda stand to be right but the truth is that no matter the one I use, if you read it, you'd still understand.😅😅
Thanks for the correction tho. I'd take this into application while I try my best to know why and how.

Though it's not really important but it's good to know that we will able to applies it now that we learned the difference. I already read it before but Itgere were times that we just let it the normal way as we type it here in forum but to content creators and news maker this is a must know.

I had a few PMs with GazetaBitcoin on this issue and that was my answer:


In my opinion it is indeed very controversial (because in Germany, we always write capital letters) but I would always write Bitcoin. After all we know what we are talking about.

If we make it totally accurate, we could say: I just initiated unspent transaction output(s).  :D

BTC

It is true that the writing difference between Bitcoin and bitcoin is an issue that we often forget, but I don't really mind that.
For me, it doesn't really affect the writing we write, we are free to write what we think is appropriate. Because this forum is
not a school or university that must have correct grammatical writing. As long as our writing can be understood by other members,
in my opinion grammatical issues are not something to be debated about.

I think I've read the difference of these two before but just wasn't paying attention that much because as I was typing small letter "b" in my keyboard. Anyway, it wasnt that an issue or a problem if most of us here uses the capital or small letter b/B as long as we understand each of the one's statement, right?

You are not writing in Russian now, you are writing in English and you follow the rules of English grammar. ;)

My example has a double meaning actually. It can mean that my friend sees no benefits in using the Bitcoin blockchain. It can also mean that he sees no benefits in using bitcoin (the coin/currency). I should have thought of a better example, but I will leave it as it is now.

It doesn't have the same meaning and refers to two different things, hence this thread. But you can still grasp the meaning no matter if you use Bitcoin or bitcoin, sure.

It just looks weird to me to see bitcoin. Most of the time I just capitalize it. But I am glad I came across that survey and remembered an old discussion. Will try to respect the difference now anytime I can.

In that particular PM exchange, you are referring to the coin/currency as Bitcoin, when it should be bitcoin. I am sure it gets even more complicated for native Germans because they capitalize all nouns and unconsciously use the same approach when writing in English sometimes.

Wait, what?

I think this is about difference in semantics. The difference is not closely felt but with the example I see that the first is pointing to the name Bitcoin and the second is about the digital currency.
To the second example, it is particularly about the spendable coin, fractions , example 0.002btc

Admit it or not, many of us including me is not really paying attention to the wordings to be used in discussing Bitcoin. But what I noticed on my usage, I usually referred units to BTC. For example, 1 BTC, that is because most of the cryptocurrency including Ether is using the short abbreviation of ETH. That is also what the applications and wallets are showing. Though even if we use BTC or bitcoin for unit, it is still understandable.

But I agree, for the concept of discussing Bitcoin in Bitcoin Network and Blockchain, it is much appropriate to use "Bitcoin", instead of "BTC" blockchain. Better to know it so thanks OP.

The thing is, they don't appear red in my Grammarly when I tried to post both words it seems like both of them are correct until you elaborate to us the difference between these two. I understand it well when you say about the difference between the two words you mentioned. It usually means quantity when you are posting on the Altcoin section but in this section upper case should be used at some point. Thanks for clarifying it to us, this seems to be a small thing but it's a piece of good information you got here.

Semantics is indeed a good explanation because it talks about general concept of something. I don't really care in a sense that things are still the same. There are existing misconceptions already such as Bitcoin represents the whole cryptocurrency industry. That's how popularity works, but in this case it is a a difference between a concept and amount. I don't really get why a discussion still is needed in such topic lol.

You can use both options. Can anyone forbid you to do this?

Bitcoin is the technology or the blockchain. When you talk about coins on the Bitcoin blockchain, you use bitcoin.

Both of them are grammatically correct, so your Grammarly app wouldn't be able to mark either of the two as a mistake. It's just the meaning that is different.

Is that what you understood from this thread? That there is a law, or that I am proposing there should be one? Bloody hell. 

Good post! It is good to learn new information or clarify something, and of course it is great when people use different words or abbreviations correctly. But very often people communicating do not pay too much attention to such things. Because in my opinion this nuance of the using Bitcoin or bitcoin, or BTC even does not influence on the meaning of yhe text greatly in fact. It is like you will write Ethereum or ethereum, or ETH. Or something like Dollar or dollar, or $. Or something like Number or number and so on. It is the same like "I am going to" or "gonna"... Of course I try to use Bitcoin/bitcoin/BTC correctly in most cases, but not always. May be for some article or website information it is very important really, but for ordinary communication between forumers it will not play substantial role. Because the most important is the content of the message to my mind.

Does this mean that Bitcoin has a good place in our world? It has become a name of many different objects that were newly created from 2008. No doubt that Bitcoin has changed the world in some scales. Blockchain, Bitcoin - what awesome inventions  ::)

Though I never think about this carefully but after reading your threads, I have realized many things

In my opinion, this is only in writing. They make B and b in the first letter.
Why do I say that ?
Since 4 years ago I knew bitcoin, I never heard of any difference about BITCOIN with the first letter B or b
But I also don't know if anyone thinks it is different. For me, the difference in the first letter as you mentioned above has no effect.

Uuuhm ::) I hardly pay attention to that. Whenever I am writing something that has to do with Bitcoin, no matter how I put it, whether it’s small letter 'B' or capital letter 'B', people always understand it.

It’s just like the two statements you used as an example, whether the B's on the Bitcoin word is in small or capital letter, people will understand what you’re trying to say. But it’s still good that you pointed this out and I have gotten to know about it, next time when I’m writing about Bitcoin I will know how to put my words.

Same here! Well, I know about it before when I was just starting here in the forum. But I guess it didn't matter much if you use any of it anyway so I guess I just kinda disregarded it and didn't make much a big deal out of it.

Whenever I post a response with the word bitcoin in it, no one tells me that I should write it with a capital letter or whatsoever so I assume they already understand what I mean. But even though it's not such a big issue, I'm still glad that it was discussed 'cause it surely made many of us realize and recall the difference between them.

Even I just came to my senses and found out about this.
So the use of capital letters will depend on the context.
So far, I just write about what I wrote. Commonly, only used upper case for the starter of a sentence and then will be in lower case, or even I don't pay attention anymore to the use of B in upper or lower case. New for me.

But, if most people don't know about this, will it really influence the meaning of the word "Bitcoin/bitcoin"?

Honestly, for me, it doesn't matter anyway whatever you use, and personally, i don't even pay so much attention to it when typing bitcoin or Bitcoin.

I guess the B is better or maybe BTC at some point since this is available in the forum.


Maybe the difference between the two is not really that important so anyone could just use Bitcoin or bitcoin in general. So in the end it is still understandable when explained here in the forum.

Nobody will tell you that you wrote it wrong. Many have never heard about the difference, others don't care, so when you combine all that -  It's not really a big deal, but an interesting observation. It's all based on all old discussion, very few people follow this unwritten rule.

Would be interesting to investigate whether Satoshi himself made this distinction while posting. Or the Bitcoin developers who worked on the project at the beginning.   

I think it is the same word and the same meaning. no difference.

Thanks for the information but bitcoin will be always bitcoin. Well, honestly I don't give attention to any of this as long as we understand what it means. IMO, 3 years in my forum, it's not a big deal discussing with anyone here since they're getting what we mean by our statements.

Things are getting complicated and I don't want to make terms be complicated also.

As long as your thoughts about bitcoin was understandable, it's fine but still, it's a good find that there are differences between bitcoin and Bitcoin.

In general internet conversations I could care less how Bitcoin is spelled. That said, as others have pointed out, when writing a technical article yes there *is* a difference which depends on if you are talking about the currency itself (Bitcoin) or the unit of currency (bitcoin).

The only thing that matters is that when folks - especially newbs - talk about it, they MUST be talking about BTC and not some alt crap coin. Far too often folks talk about them (alts) and call them "Bitcoin" as if they are the same thing and of course they are NOT.

Think sparkling wines: Despite them all being bubbly only those from the Champagne region of France are "Champagne", the rest are just wannbes. Perhaps very good but still not Champagne. Same with crypto coins - only 1 is Bitcoin. The others are all alts.

Cool, I don't know there's any difference between the term bitcoin and Bitcoin. For me as long as you understand each other here in the forum, it doesn't matter how they spell. Some members don't really talk about it and point out the words used incorrectly. It doesn't even influence any discussions and I don't personally pay attention to what word I'm using. In the end, the important thing is content of what you're trying to say.

Bitcoin had been classified as a currency and all currencies are written with the uppercase, think about any fiat currencies written with lowercase, you can't find any, so currency is a noun and all noun starts with uppercase.
Definitely, the use of the uppercase "Bitcoin" is appropriate to use in our everyday life.

It's an interesting grammatical rule, but I always write bitcoin with a lowercase *b*, never thought about this difference.
I think as we are talking informally at an internet public forum it's not an issue at all, but if I were going to write a formal essay, article or something else like that I would take it in consideration for sure.

And yes, depending where and to who you are writing a text rules like this are a must, so people should care about it.
It really matters how you spell bitcoin.

I must say it was quite interesting getting to just know about this like right now. I had no idea but usually notice the difference when I come across articles on bitcoin. Usually I just thought it had no significant but after reading your threads the pictures are all coming back. Still though, don't think it's worth any attention as we can simply decode what the message is trying to say without having to indicate if the writer night as a blockchain or an assest.

Also we have very large audience of non- English speaking country in the space and most don't have english as their official language, how then do they come into this conversation since they won't be making use of the english language.

Yes, i talked about this before. Coins use small caps, this is very important when the coin has the name of someone. Bitcoin the project, the network, etc. and bitcoin would be the coin itself, like you explained.

A good example for this is the satoshi, a hundred million of those make a bitcoin. The creator of Bitcoin (and this forum) is Satoshi.

There is a catch, the grammatical rules say that you have to use a capital when starting a new paragraph, so when you want to refer to the coin, you should try to add some extra word, so you would say "The bitcoin value is 16k" rather than Bitcoin value is 16k, because Bitcoin is the project, code, network, blockchain, technology yadda.

But this is a rule of thumb for all currencies. Always use small caps.

Yes I know Bitcoin and bitcoin difference but it does not matter unless you like to really specify the right use of grammar. Here in our place where English is not our primary language, most or all people I know here does not matter when it comes to using the right word. Bitcoin is a noun and that itself could be use to name the system.while.bitcoin is a system unit wherein the smallest unit is satoshi.

It's the opposite. when you talk about the currency you write it with a lowercase b. Talking about the blockchain and technology requires an uppercase letter B.

You can find examples of that with fiat currencies as well. Here is a link to the financial results of the German Telecom operator (Deutsche Telekom) for Q3 2020.

The document says:
https://www.telekom.com/en/investor-relations/publications/financial-results

I just do not pay attention between the difference of the two in writing. It depends on the usage of bitcoin, as a currency or blockchain. What matter is how to work on it to gain and earn it, then use it on the market or any transactions.

This is actually helpful information and would be useful for future contents that will be made concerning Bitcoin as a whole. Its a concerning topic since most people just keeps throwing both of these words but sometimes having to capitalize a single letter can create a new meaning which is useful in contents that would be produced.

Actually upon doing any post here in the forum, I do not really bother on how Bitcoin or bitcoin is being spelled out for I just consider the perception of the reader that it would understand what I am trying to say and also the fact that you have stated the Bitcoin or bitcoin duly understandable already no matter what capitalization you are using. Though it is really needed to be stated what you are really talking about on a formal manner whether the block chain technology or the currency itself, but since we are talking on a casual that seems combining the thought or the idea that both block chain technology and currency lies under one name which is Bitcoin/bitcoin, any spell is already acceptable as long as it is understandable and people do already know what you are trying to imply on your statement.

I see, that's the difference between the first letter, upper and lower case.  but the goal is for the cryptocurrency which now has a value of $ 17000.  and will reach $ 20,000 later this year.  and the king of cryptocurrencies.  what if "Dollar * and * dollar* ?are different words but have the same meaning.

I don't really know that their is difference between both spellings of bitcoin, because it's the same spelling and the same pronouncing, so it's good to know what we don't know, looking at the spelling the only thing that differentiate them is capital letter of the alphabet B and small letter b, that's from my views, but any contrary to that I don't knows but I'm interested to know if their is any difference in case of any interview concerning cryptocurrency especially bitcoin

It doesn't matter to me though I use whatever I see would fit to me after all no matter what you spell they still have the same meaning. I don't think bitcoiners will bother to correct such term but yeah, I like the idea of giving a difference about of the spelling. It would be recognize soon to most bitcoiners the same as how the Bitcoin logo changed.

Actually, I really want to know from what time this term is used? The difference between Bitcoin and bitcoin?
Is it based on the dictionary or others?
Because I saw some posts by Satoshi and he used Bitcoin and also bitcoin in the same situation. Not paying attention to the upper or lower case.

However, if it is about the truth, I think from now I will also change my writing style. So far I commonly use Bitcoin or bitcoin without paying attention to the meaning of each ;D ;D

It is one of the ISO codes.
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-needs-iso-certified-currency-code

I took a quick look at some of his older posts. This is what I was able to find:

In this example he wrote the name of the software with a small letter b and referred to the network/blockchain with a capitalized letter B.

But in this example
He talks about a piece of software and capitalizes the B, in contrast to what he did above.

But then we have this post for example:
In this one, he uses a lowercase letter to refer to the network. Seems he used all forms and didn't pay that much attention to it.

LOL, it mean to other people like the OP. This is why he opened it up to the bitcoiners so that he will going to know if there are some people that are aware on the difference on bitcoin and Bitcoin. In my opinion yes there is and it will depend on how it was being use like if it is a noun or a unit of measurement. These words are the same in spelling but it could be different in meaning when in use. This is how they see bitcoin and Bitcoin if you mind.

I use bitcoin in lowercase most of the time.

In most cases that is the correct use. Additionally,  the bitcoin logo is lower case as well.

https://bitcoin.org/img/icons/logotop.svg?1605463846



I think it is important to use the correct term

I find a bit weird when someone says "I am sending you 5 Satoshis" or "I received 0.4 Bitcoin"

Yes, most of the time we say 'bitcoin' we are talking about the currency, or a specific amount of that currency. A lowercase b is correct.

I have to admit that I have been on the wrong end of this many times. I used to capitalize the B all the time, but I feel it's important to write it properly. It is not going to create misunderstandings, but still let's be professionals ;D.   

Yes it has. Bitcoin is it's title and bitcoin is we are using for the amount of coins.

As an example

I know about Bitcoin or I have a good knowledge of Bitcoin.

I have 2 bitcoins or I can give you two bitcoins.

Its so simple.  ;) ;) ;)

I haven't given much thought to the plural form - bitcoins. Should it actually be used in that way is another question. Should we say "I earned 2 bitcoin" or "I earned 2 bitcoins". I know from Satoshi's posts, that he used the proper form and called them bitcoins when in plural. That is good enough for me. :)

I never had an idea
Thanks

I also never bothered about the clear differences between those terms because I never knew there is a clear difference in using them although the message I am conveying with those term without paying attention to them will clearly be understood by my readers however its a good thing the OP made clarity of those terms and I will be cautious of how I am going to use them in my articles, post e.t.c.
I also know a lot of people don't really pay attention it but its a good thing and its high time we began to made clear use of them appropriately in the forum and in other write-ups.

Thank you opening post for making an informative topic, To be honest, I didn't realize that writing between Bitcoin and bitcoin
has a different meaning. Before finding this topic, I thought it was the same regarding writing Bitcoin and bitcoin, it turned out
to have differences. Even though I don't care how it is written, as long as I can understand the meaning of the comments you
want to convey, grammatical issues are not a problem for me.

Everything goes back to each person how someone writes it whether they want to use upper or lowercase letters, it doesn't make any difference what it means, because the words that come out are the word Bitcoin, and the shape is the same as Bitcoin, and the selling value is also 17000 $, nothing which is different even though only distinguishes uppercase letters from lowercase letters, and that does not change the price of Bitcoin in all markets, so what is more important to discuss trivial matters like this, is there no discussion ..

Sincerely i can't really find any difference in both the Bitcoin and bitcoin terms be used by forum members. What i do know is that, these two has their distinct usage outside the forum but within the forum no at all. Even some higher rank individuals do ignored this differences while making their contribution counting on this forum but won't do while outside the forum.

I voted "No" because I did not know if there was a distinction. Thanks for sharing the information now I know the answer. I generally write with a capital B in all situations. I only use the BTC symbol if I want to mention amount. I hardly ever use the lowercase b.
Good Sunday to learn a little more.
Here is a link that supports OP's explanation.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.btcnn.com/why-is-bitcoin-sometimes-spelt-with-an-uppercase-b-and-other-times-spelt-with-a- lowercase-b /% 3famp (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.btcnn.com/why-is-bitcoin-sometimes-spelt-with-an-uppercase-b-and-other-times-spelt-with-a- lowercase-b /% 3famp)

For me, correct spelling, correct grammar and right choices of a word is a must in building sentences in order to be understood easily. I can say that I am the kind of person who is very keen and strict in spelling and didn't even use any abbreviations nor the trend of millennials short-cut text types. Its just my way of writing to emphasize every word clearly. And as for Crypto world, I always made sure to type Bitcoin with capital B everytime, and might go with BITCOIN as well. I don't know if it is really necessary, but I just want to emphasize the word Bitcoin as a very important and valuable word as its really the largest cryptocurrency in the digital market. The importance of a word and this digital currency needs to be seen in my way of writing as part of my gratitude for the great financial help it gave me.

Finally, I found an answer regarding the differences in writing Bitcoin and bitcoin, actually I have been curious about this for a long time.
In my opinion, it is very important to pay attention to grammatical in writing, if the grammatical is wrong, fear has a different meaning.
So the message I wanted to convey was not delivered well, but I am also still learning about correct grammatical writing. It is not easy
to make grammatically correct writing, it takes a lot of practice to get used to it.

It doesn't really matter so much as well as the post can give you the idea or thoughts about his post.

But this is a good wake up call so that we are enlightened and knowledgeable on how to use the word "Bitcoin" properly depending on the context.

Still, thank you for informing us so that we can use Bitcoin in a correct grammar and to give you to exact idea that we are trying to point out when we make a thread about it.

Not really, but I'm willing to learn about it because that will really help me to become a much effective user here in this forum.

Although, I don't care about how I used the word "bitcoin" before, right now, I'm confident about using it properly in my posts. This is a huge help and I really appreciated it on how you want us to become informed about its proper use depending on circumstances. This post really caught my attention and I will surely inform others regarding this.

I know how important to use Capital letters in every sentences we write( though sometimes it was not i do) but in Terminology as Bitcoin?

Not unless i will use it in the Beginning of the sentence then it must be capitalized.

But if not?i don't care if it will be Caps or not as long as it is understandable and clear to read.

In general you should capitalise the first letter of the organisation producing a product - for example a Hoover is a suction cleaner manufactured by the Hoover corporation. A hoover has become a generic word for any old suction cleaner. Currencies are not generally capitalised,

In my opinion, this is only the difference between lowercase and uppercase letters but the meaning and purpose remains the same, maybe this can be said only to correct correct and good writing, because with us writing starting from capital letters may look better for everyone. , but if we write starting with lowercase, it may not look good, but it all depends on how the person judges it. This is no problem for me personally.

That's a nice thing. I was not aware of the matter. I actually use capital “B” all the time, sometimes I may accidently use the small "b". I will definitely take care of this from next time. Another thing is that we use BTC instead of Bitcoin, this is not correct. the short form of Bitcoin is XBT. You know, BitMEX, Kraken are still used “XBT“ in their exchanges.

Woah, I didn't pay attention to this before and always wrote with a small letter. Thank you so much for this information! It was really helpful! Now I'll pay attention to such things.

Most of the time when we mention the term b/Bitcoin, we usually refer to the coin or currency and not the actual network or the blockchain that powers the asset. Therefore, writing it with a lowercase 'b' is correct most of the time. When you go through some of your posts where bitcoin is mentioned, you will see for yourself that you are talking about quantities and units, and not particular features of the Bitcoin infrastructure.

For me it makes no difference what letter is used to spell the word bitcoin... What does it even matter? :D Even if you write btc... I think that everyone here knows what we are talking about!

Your explanation of difference in meaning have sense. I really didn’t pay attention on this at all till now and always used variant with capital "B" that is "Bitcoin" in meaning "the currency". If to look through article about BTC on Coinmarketcap (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/) you will find out  that they also use variant with a capital "B" in meaning "the currency" as a synonym to BTC, or better to say as a proper name of this cryptocurrency as well as all other crypto: Ethereum, Tether, Dogecoins, etc.

Im with this and i dont know on if its really needed to have this kind of comparison between Capital and a small letter when tending to write or tell about bitcoin/Bitcoin.
It wont matter on how you do arrange things up because some might be elaborating Bitcoin as a currency but still make use of bitcoin directly instead.
All matters with the writing style imho.

I'm quite sure that with whatever style of saying Bitcoin is, it's automatic that we're only pointing out Bitcoin itself, but formalization is a must, in my opinion, in order to construct a better sentence, Bitcoin or BTC is the correct way when you're going to mention Bitcoin on your sentences, and btw, I am not trying to convince anyone, just saying that based on my own observation, it has been a norm around here in the community and amongst the topics and replies that I have read during my time here in the forum.

I'm trying to get your point you are pointing out that bitcoin as a noun is spelt differently from Bitcoin as a verb. If we were to adopt this then it should be in the opposite direction looking into your example:

This is rather an action carried out on the digital currency it Should be with the lower case character instead

I was thinking since the currency is a noun it should rather have the upper case this is my thoughts

No I am not. Where did I say that? I never mentioned nouns or verbs in any of the posts in this thread. It doesn't matter whether it's Bitcoin or bitcoin, they are both nouns. If you had read the OP and the other posts (at least some of them), you would understand that the point I am making is that the noun with a lowercase "b" is used when you talk about the currency and the quantity of that currency. When you talk about the blockchain, the network, or the technology, you use the uppercase "B". That's the theory at least.   

Doesnt really matter if "B" or "b" would be used and it would really be varying on the sentence which i do completely agree  with Pmalek comment above;


Everything is really just the same on general perspective.Does it really matter or would needed up some discussions about capitalization?

When I was in English class, the teacher said that the first letter of a word is capitalized to indicate that this thing is unique. So I always think Bitcoin is correct.

That's how it should be done, for me Bitcoin and bitcoin is just a matter of position of the word and if you think about it, why not just directly use the word blockchain to describe blockchain? It won't be convoluted and at the same time is going to make people much more curious.

Anyone who knows bitcoin will know: Blockchain technology is the basic technology of bitcoin, and bitcoin is the first application of blockchain. Everyone knows that Bitcoin stands for Bitcoin, Bitcoin stands for blockchain technology,
Because everyone usually talks about bitcoin and doesn't often talk about Bitcoin blockchain technology, I prefer to use Bitcoin for daily communication. I think most people don’t pay much attention to this formalization, and it’s good to understand it yourself. I use a lot of symbols: BTC

I don’t care about grammar at all. The only place where I had to think about how to write correctly was school. Now I also try to write without mistakes, so that people don’t consider me to be illiterate, but what comes to the first letter of Bitcoin, I don’t care about it at all. I always write Bitcoin with the capital letter. But sometimes I am too lazy, so I write it with lowercase letter.

Yes, I don't think it has a rigid rule on this matter. We ourselves have learned about a way of writing identifiers or objects in a large letter. I'm not a teacher but really it wouldn't be that serious. Everyone is free to write but don't let it falsify the true meaning of bitcoin. Would be good.

All currencies, including fiat currencies such as the euro or the dollar, are common nouns and shouldn't be capitalized unless you start a sentence with them or they appear in a title. There are a few other exceptions such official documents, etc.

Here is a good source that explains this in more details for those who care to check it out > https://capitalizemytitle.com/ufaqs/is-dollar-capitalized/

The conclusion of that article states:

That will be in a situation of a proper noun when it begins a sentence or in the middle or end of it, I guess. I also pay attention to spellings too.

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Well, for me, I tend to spell it as Bitcoin (capital B) any time I use that word out of my respect for the phenomenal discovery, not even for grammar sense.

I never was aware of this. I thought it was one and the same thing. But now as i know the difference, i still might go with what i am used to and that is to use both as the same.

Doesn't seem to be of any difference to me.
Small 'b' and capital 'B' doesn't change much if you're talking about the blockchain on which bitcoin is used.
If there are different blockchains for both small and capital then that's a different story.

I didn't pay attention to these details, because I feel that both uppercase and lowercase represent Bitcoin. No matter which aspect is mentioned, I think it is the same, so I did not pay too much attention to these.

Before I read this article, I didn't know that these differences still exist. The meaning of the difference between uppercase and lowercase is still very subtle. I learned in this article. I may pay attention to these in future reading, but what I am most concerned about is current wealth.

Actually, these are the general English terms of capitalization.
The upper case is used to express a system or concept.
Lower case is used to express payment.

Better example: last week I heard about Bitcoin and today I'm going to buy a pizza using bitcoins.

I actually do know the difference and still try to use it but let me tell you now that most people do not care and it is okay:)

For example, do you know whether it should be "the internet" or just "internet" or even "Internet"?

Well,,, there is supposed to be a difference but these days nobody cares and understands all of it.

Also, in defi it is all wrapped Bitcoin and pBitcoin and what not all those do not use small letter B:)

Wow, I didn't realize that. I assumed it was the same, and it all depends on how people spell it. That's a very good explanation; I hadn't noticed this before. I was only sending and receiving bitcoin at the time. That's just a small piece of trivia, but it's worth it because I learned something today. Thank you so much for this; I'll forward it to a friend.

Although I didn't realize this before, I think I can apply it in the future, learn this, and see it in future forums and understand its meaning. This example is very easy to understand.

Most people don't care about putting a capital letter at the beginning of their sentences or finishing them with a full stop. But still, some might find it interesting to know the difference.

I think it's similar to Bitcoin. The capital letter refers to the technology. I would have to look up what a non-capitalized letter in 'internet' means though. Most people wont care about that either anyways ;D 

I actually prefer that both are very distinct words to avoid confusion in the future... For example: BitNet/bitcoin Or Bitcoin Network/bitcoin. Besides, the slight difference could be forgotten in the future by people who don't pay attention to details, or may even be abit difficult for different culture to use.

 ;D me too. I did learn about the difference but when I write I no longer really think,,, but I see definitely for example some big media still insist on using only small letter b for Bitcoin even when referring to the network.

In the end,,, as I explained, some circumstances always use B. All markets use capital B even though it is actually referring to "coins" not network. See this article, over the years, Internet slowly became internet:) https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/06/01/associated-press-style-change-marks-growth-of-internet-and-web/

Same will happen for bitcoin when it becomes mass adopted. Like Dollar became dollar:)

Well, I don't really pay much attention to things like that especially when it is not for an examintion  ;D though might make sense to do. I believe most people on this platform might not too as long as we mostly understand what is been said in the post that is made. When you read through most posts you will likely notice typographical errors but the bottom line is that the massage is pass and people can relate to it. 

Well, in my opinion, Bitcoin is a noun so it deserves to be capitalized. But when I read your explanation again, I also think about the word "dollar" or "peso". Now the way currencies are being called out are now becoming vaguer and vaguer for me. So I should say that if we are talking about Bitcoin as a subject or as a feature then it deserves to be capitalized. If we are talking about numbers, or quantity, then it's ok not to capitalize.

I think the difference between Bitcoin and bitcoin is that if Bitcoin is more of a bitcoin symbol, my habit of seeing the letter B in my mind is immediately Bitcoin like I see the dollar symbol $. if bitcoin is more about the meaning of bitcoin or the use of bitcoin, what do you think, please add it if you want..

Until today, I did not understand the difference between small hand bitcoin and Capital Bitcoin, but after reading this post today, I understood the difference. Capital Bitcoin only means blockchain And lowercase bitcoin spellings are used to denote specific bitcoins or numbers.

I never pay attention to this at all, I only observe this only if I am stating a statement with it. This is really an eye-opening subject thank you for this, hope not to fall victim to it again.

In general, it's true like you said letters B and b, there is no difference, only the letters are the same but the placement in different sentences, but in my opinion, the letter B only symbolizes bitcoin. By looking at only the letter B, people will immediately know that what is meant by B is bitcoin, for example. we see a symbol like this $ directly that is pictured in our heads dollar then that's how it is if we see the letter B.

Nope, I don't know the difference because they're the same, Bitcoin is used if it's at the beginning of the sentence like this one and bitcoin is used in the middle like this one. That's the only difference between the two and you can just use blockchain to refer to it, why do something unnecessary like this?