Bitcoin Forum

You can vote 2 times and the pol runs for 90 days.

A coin's name tells a lot about the coin. Most coins with silly names will never be taken seriously by the public, the exception might be dogecoin.

My advice would to only invest in coins with a good sounding strong marketable name like bitcoin, blackcoin, mintcoin, primecoin, etc. and avoid any silly or animal related name.

To strengthen my point you can find most names in the poll way below on the bottom of lists sorted by trading volume ready to be delisted.

What do you think, does a name count?

Other is stupidest name

Why, othercoin will soon replace bitcoin!  :P

FlappyCoin is in the lead!

Seriously, I think you're weighing the name too heavily. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so says the bard. Vertcoin, for example: At the time, when scrypt ASICs were coming from China, Vertcoin offered ASIC-resistance. I think if it was called Pantscoin, it would have still been successful. Another example is Darkcoin. If you knew nothing about Darkcoin except its name, it's not a stretch to make the analogy "Darkcoin:Litecoin as Shibecoin:Dogecoin". Then there's Cinnicoin, which sounds like a cinnamon-themed coin, but has made new developments in anonymous messaging/transactions.

Touching on your examples of strong, "marketable" names: Blackcoin sounds like a cryptocurrency based on a color. Mintcoin sounds (to me, as is implied in all these statements) like it's dedicated to the mint family of plants. I have nothing on Bitcoin and Primecoin, I agree those are pretty good names.

And I'm sure there are tons of other examples that I don't even know about.

Why is LeproCoin there, that name is brilliant :D

It is surprising at just how many poorly named coins there are. My vote would go to Boolberry, a coin that sounds like a weird brand of cereal. They chose that name after two naming contests, and that's what they came up with.

At first I thought Boolberry was a bit silly but it's grown on me a bit. I assume it's a play on 'Boolean'.

Hodorcoin is pretty good.

Dogecoin is an obvious choice.

But I think the worst name was Kittahcoin. An obvious rip off of Doge while not being creative or funny.

a coin called "altcoin", which has two versions also....from two shitty algo

Added boolberry and trollcoin to the list  ;D

NewBTC


Others at least try to sell themselves as innovative in some way, but this one just confess they are the same coin with another name and no innovation.


Nigeria coin:

But might be fun and memish if was NigerianPrince coin.

Go on, spoil yourselves; glory in the exuberance, high and low art :D

All the coinz (http://minkiz.co/coin/)

Have fun.


Cheers,

Graham

That's awesome and terrible at the same time. Good job, keep it updated!

The first one, 13, was a confirmed scam IPO.

Do you have any statistics, coins created, still alive, .. ?

Where the hell is MammothCoin on that list.

That coin takes the lead by far for having the stupidest name ever.

DuckDuckCoin it is :b

dogecoin is missing in the list

DuckDuckCoin... Is the winner. Definately.

Actually with flappycoin i could live...

or maybe not...

1315 “created”, where I could find a logo and an algo - very relaxed criteria, more of a celebration than an analysis. The data is published as Linked Open Data and is downloadable in a variety of formats, from n3 triples to csv.

I've concentrated on facts rather than value judgements, can't make reliable value judgements without a basis of fact, or at least something that behaves like a fact when you lean on it.

I made an effort to record the obvious emergent features: distribution scheme (ipo, pow, poc) versus the protection scheme (pos, pow, pob) and then the variants of PoW scheme - combos such as nist5, qubit, x11, single hash functions, e.g. fugue, groestl, etc.

But it all grinds to a halt when it hits PoS schemes - apparently there aren't any readily-identifiable individual approaches or categories to be articulated. This is likely due to the fact that the only representation is the implementation --- and there lies epistemological trouble.

All that can reliably be said is: "claims to use a PoS scheme". It's not trivial to determine if the code actually functions as such and assessing whether it performs better or worse than an alternative implementation is a formidable technical challenge.

By contrast, consider the labels springing up to describe the various difficulty re-targeting algorithms: KGW, DGWv2, DigiShield.

PoW has labels, difficulty retargeting has labels, there are labels to apply to coin generation approaches, e.g. “an inflationary version”.

I'm now keenly interested in discovering why PoS schemes are apparently so intractable to classification.

Cheers

Graham

Dogecoin

So dumb that it was once worth more than $50,000,000 on name recognition alone without any code changes.

Franko.

Flappy by a huge margin. Out of all those dumb names I can't believe that everyone thinks that Flappy is the worst.

I voted for it too

truckcoin?

Duckduckcoin sucks. Duck coin is better.

On request, added Dogecoin, Kittahcoin and MammothCoin.

Which coin wins the worst coin name award?

you have to admit litecoin kind of sounds like "Somy" or "Low fat milk."

essentially its saying "Bitcoin lite"

not sure if that's rock solid marketing there ?

its grown on me but.

In between "Malecoin" and "Mandarincoin".  ;)

Yeah, I never liked this name either.

More often than not it seems people choose to put bad names on their coins. I wonder if it's just the past success of Dogecoin that makes people think that they can just slap a stupid name on their coin and it's going to be alright.

Dogecoin

FlappyCoin takes the lead!

Uro

I voted for LoveCoin because any publicity
is good publicity.

And Cupid is stupid. ;D

You forgot to add titcoin  ;D