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I'm involved in development of Electrum client (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50936.0), which is very cool concept of chainless Bitcoin clients. Electrum client don't handle copy of Bitcoin blockchain, but ask servers for necessary information. Few days ago I proposed new version of network protocol (https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zHy1SUlhgtCMbypO8cHgpWH73V5iUQKk_0rWvMqSNs/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1) and I'm implementing server on top of this specification (not finished yet; https://gitorious.org/electrum-server/electrum-server/). My goal is to provide general-purpose server protocol and implementation, which act as overlay network over Bitcoin p2p network, providing bitcoin-related services for lightweight clients, eshop implementations etc.

genjix suggested that such server protocol/implementation should have it's own name to not confuse Electrum users. Although I like name "Electrum", I agree that using another name for server side and protocol is really good idea.

So I'm opening this contest to find some cool sounding name for such overlay network. I'm keeping the right to not pick any of suggested name and only the winner receive those 2 BTC. Please don't propose anything with bit* or *coin, I think there's already a lot of projects with similar names.

First !

I propose Electricity or Tesla or Electra or ...

How about the Furnace Network™
;D

Thanks. I think the name should be a little more unique, making it easy to find relevant info in search engine (try "Bitcoin Tesla", you'll receive a lot of results about Nvidia Tesla).

Also it should not be some name with registered trademark.

OK. How about Electrine ?

I don't understand why you can't just extend the core Bitcoin protocol. Bitcoin nodes are already doing a lot of work for each transaction - how much more overhead is it to index all transactions by address/pubkey (might need migration away from bdb).

How about electrolysis

Since Electrum is an alloy of silver and gold: ArAu.

Some of the oldest known coins are made of Electrum and were found in Lydia. They are called Stater.

It's assumed that in Egypt, Electrum was called Asem.

The obvious Net can be added to each of them too.

positron, the antimatter counterpart of the electron (or positronum if you prefer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron)

Mike, this is contest about new name, not discussion about proposal. But feel free to open discussion in Electrum thread or on #electrum IRC.

Unchained.

Elektron
Flitter
Pyramidion

XCXP - Extensible Cryptounit Exchange Protocol

+1 electricity

I pretty like Electricity, but try to put "Bitcoin Electricity" to Google ... ;-)

While you know my suggestions:

Electrite (my favourite)

and

Electrolyte

Thanks for another suggestions.

Names don't need to be related to Electrum. Name should be also pronounceable and easy to write ;-).

+1 for Electrine. How about you create a poll with the suggested names so far?

I'll wait one or two days to collect few sounding names and then I offer the poll.

Skybit Network

TrundleNet (no reason)
Transactinator (T13 for short)
Eleventy (because eleven is my favorite number)

Elektrum (just swap the k)

Lucid (sounds clear and easy to me)

LinkD (pronounced "linked," because of how it will interact with different servers)

Overbit

Matrix

SLOSH - Simple Lucid Overlay System Heuristics

Also known as Slush's Lucid Overlay System Heuristics.

SLUSH - Slush's Lucid Underground System Heuristics (Or Simple ...)

-MarkM-

Son of a Bit == Slush's Overlay Network over Bitcoin  :)

Any of these could be used with "Network", "net" or "link" to signify its a network technology.

Canopy
Baldachin
Gridworks
Aegis

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I see you like my idea of "lucid"   :D


Naypalm, I like the idea of 'canopy.'  Nice one.

What do you think of 'Hadron'.


 

Electrobit

Electrocharge

Chargebit

Bitcurrent <-- i like this cuz its like bittorrent and electric current at the same time

Bitvolt

Juicebit

Fluxbit

Coinflux

Hardon?

ECB : Electrum Communication Babble.
For some reason I like the acronym.

http://www.ecb.int/ecb/visits/gallery/shared/img/8_big.jpg

Unified Network Compressed Line Engine and Frontend with Unified Coliberated Key Entrance Response.

aether, quintessence (the fifth element: ether)
MoE ("Medium of Exchange" or "Money over Ethernet")

Noobchain

network operating outside bit coin has an interesting name

And as it is for accessing the blockchain in lightweight clients for noobs...

BCCN
Bitcoin Chainless Client Network

Chainless-Net

Nochain-Net

Feather-Net

Alpaca-Net

Nakamoto-Net

cipher

bitblitz

blipnet

bitquick

blitcoin

15HM3UjMXdcvSZiaR1BK5WULgRaU7Uos4Z

bitserve

coinserve

chainserve

servechain

1MHoL67kGH6BY1x3rLBuLXc1Xg3WfuYbza

How about
Quantum
 or
Photon / Photum

I like how it suggests what Electrum is made of

Stratum

(new layer)

or if it really is an unneccessary layer, "Administratum"  ;)

Edit: also reserving some stratum derivatives

Superstratum 

(in latin literally overlay or 'the layer above/over /'on top of')

Suprastratum

Slush, is there an announce thread I can follow to get updates about the actual project?
If this is what I think it is, it's a great idea and will make developing clients that much easier.

I actually came to this forum today to post a question about looking for such a network ... and after posting my question I found this post.

My 2 BTCents:

DooChain
DooCh
Doopla

Techiest:

BCNL BitcoinChainNegotiationLayer
BCTL BitcoinChainTradingLayer
...

Cheers! ;-)

marcus, "Stratum" sounds cool and I especially like the meaning of the word. It's my favourite choice so far...

Farad

I'm not slush, but here you go https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55842.0

You will probably also be interested in electrum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50936.0

Sound good, yeah "Stratum Protocol"
could be included in the standard client one day so that all ppl can be servers for the thin clients based on the protocol  :)

edit: there is a small chance that gateways to bitcoin network collecting some fees for their services ?  would be a real incentive to run a full node that supports thin clients based on the proposed overlay protocol

Scratum
Strotum
...
+1

fertbit

treetop / bittop

nebula

I would use generic name for generic layer, not tied to Electrum. Rather, I would emphasize on the "thin", "light" clients the network allows to work:

Bitcoin LiteNet

(you can pronounce also as "Bitcoin Lightened").

Overlord ... because it's "centralized"

I'm guessing this won't be chosen for practical reasons (I suspect it has a disturbing psychological effect as a project name), but I like it in a twisted way.

ripper234, although it's more centralized than bitcoin (which is pure p2p), it can be still called "decentralized", because anybody can run his own server or pick favourite server operator which he trust. Something like mailbox providers.

From all proposed names, I feel like Stratum is clear winner for me. I'll still wait a day, but unless somebody propose even more superior name, I'll pick "Stratum" without a public poll (you can call it 'enlightened absolutism', heh). marcus_of_augustus, can you PM me your bitcoin address?

I know, it was just a silly joke, inspired by people misjudging Overlay as a "bad move for Bitcoin because it's centralized".

Not trying to be a butthead here, but those two choices are too similar to 'Scrotum'. Keep the suggestions coming for the naming of slush's project.

~Bruno~

I propose the name: Orichalcum    (or Orichalc if you're looking for something shorter, or Oricalc if you want it to be more about calculations :p)

Reason:

As "Electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver, with trace amounts of copper and other metals" (From Wiki)
Orichalcum is a metal mentioned in several ancient writings, most notably the story of Atlantis as recounted in the Critias dialogue, recorded by Plato. According to Critias, orichalcum was considered second only to gold in value.


I just thought it was fitting.

I'm not sure if the name should have anything to do with "electrum." At first I thought it should, but this proposal could be implemented by any exit node for thin clients.

alchemy --> alchemium --> alchemum (O results on Google, to date)
https://www.google.com/search?q=alchemy&hl=en&source=lnms&ei=WhD9TtD-FObU2AWvjJWKAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=1&ved=0CC4Q_AUoAA&biw=1280&bih=685#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=%22alchemum%22&psj=1&oq=%22alchemum%22&aq=f&aqi=g-l10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=4088l6379l1l6661l2l2l0l1l0l0l165l165l0.1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=406e82ce9e371013&biw=1280&bih=685

It is unavoidably related anyway by the technical task being performed, thin-client/bitcoin-server federation. Fortunately, they happen to share the same suffix, um.

It could be nice to have any other thin clients identify with Stratum in a similar manner and hat-tip to the founding idea of Electrum, that now becomes the special case of the wider family, but it is not necessary, eg. Aurum, Hum, Drum, Plum, Rum, etc.  Also related layers can easily be identified superstratum, substratum, etc.

Slush : PM coming your way :) Hope you have fun with your new layer, Stratum. I wonder how much overlap there might be here with the OpenTransactions client-server federation crypto-currency transaction s/ware that is already built?

In my opinion, many suggestions here are intelligent and clever, but they are not easily remembered and they are terrible for marketing.

Think of the name "Kinkos."  This is an especially clever name for a store because it is highly marketable.  And, the reason it is highly marketable is because human infants have the tendency to repeat words with tight consonants, and this tendency continues as people get older.  Ever hear a baby call a pacifier a "binky?"  

Look at the names of the Teletubbies.
1.)  Tinkie Winkie
2.)  Dipsey
3.)  La La
4.)  Po Ko

And, the names of the Pac-Man characters...(Stu is the oddball).

That being said, I think there are still much better names out there.

Edit:  Thought I'd also throw "Barbie" on the list.

Lightpay

Orbit

Contest is closed, I picked name "Stratum". I'm sending 2BTC to Marcus right now!

I liked that name best, too.

yeah, scrotum is the clear winner

Bro, I suppose you're giggling everytime you hear the word "Stratosphere" (aka Scrotosphere) or "Stratus" (aka Scrotus), right? :-)

"Stratum" is normal word and it's root is widely used in related words (like stratosphere), so I don't see anything wrong with this. However some people suggested that they have negative connotation to such word, so I'm not so sure now.

Edit: "stratum" is even first suggestion for synonym at http://thesaurus.com/browse/layer . I don't see anything wrong here...

Anyone telling you they envision something negative from the word Stratum is either trolling you or dropped out in 5th grade...

cheers and gratz to Marcus

There are the winners .......


and then there are the Losers.



Edit: slush I'm happy to send you back the 2 btc if you think someone can find a better name.