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I would like to create a poll for our favorite Bitcoin slogan. Please post your suggestion. I will set up a poll (maybe with two rounds should there not be a clear winner). Keep in mind it should work with people not familiar with bitcoin.

EDIT 2013-05-06: NO MORE NOMINATIONS! MAKE YOUR OWN POLL IF YOU WANT MORE ;)

EDIT 2013-03-01: FROM NOW ON NEW SUGGESTIONS WILL NEED A +1 BEFORE I WILL ADD THEM TO THE POLL



There are plenty of ideas here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46247.0


there comes to mind:

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edit 2013-03-03 / -03-06:

Hall of Fame

2013-05-05
Magic Internet Money    - 17 (11.3%)
In Crypto We Trust    - 16 (10.6%)
You Asked For Change, We Gave You Coins    - 16 (10.6%)
The Fastest Way To Pay Around The World    - 8 (5.3%)
Money Changes Everything. Bitcoin Changes Money.    - 6 (4%)
The Future of Money.    - 5 (3.3%)
Banking without Banks    - 4 (2.6%)

5 votes
Digital Gold

4 votes
Money 2.0
The People's Bailout

3 votes
Free Money
21st Century Money
Gold 2.0
Free Your Money

2 votes:
The Free Currency
World Money
P2P Money
Global Money for the Global Age
Money Made Better
for us, by us
Sound Money for a Digital Age
the currency of the 21st Century
Real Money

1 vote:
Global Secure Payment
Honest Money
The Accounting Standard of the Internet
The Monetary (R)evolution.
Banking without Banks.
Unbank Yourself!

0 votes:
True Money
Decentralizing World Domination
Gold rush in cyberspace
Hold the Presses
Open Change
Of the People, for the People
Full Control Over Your Money
In The Internet We Trust

Disqualified:
An Idea Worth Spending - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146806.msg1619813#msg1619813

Plus plenty of more suggestions in the posts.


Edit 2013-03-13:

Procedure:
Phase 1: Nominations only
Phase 2: Poll started, still open to nominations
Phase 3: Late nominations need +1 from someone else
Phase 4: 0 vote suggestions removed
Phase 5: 1 & 2 vote suggestions removed
Phase 6: 3, 4 & 5 vote suggestions removed

The idea behind all this? As the poll system of this board does not allow a ranked vote I had to enforce some aggregation. I did this by removing suggestions that clearly would not win so that voters were urged to recast their vote.

Y U get to decide?
I tried to make a fair poll. If you don't like it make your own.

The accounting standard of the internet

We Consume More Resources Every Day! ;)

-MarkM-

Launder your dirty money!  Buy drugs - cheap!     Naaah I think we have enough of that kind of publicity.

What about:


the world money

"In The Internet We Trust"

in crypto we trust

"Give us some of that internet money!"

Or, more serious:

"Sound money for a digital age"

Not your mother's money

funny but sounds a little negative, imho.

Doing for money what the internet did for communication

I read through that thread and a couple that I think would potentially spark interest in those unfamiliar with bitcoins:

From casascius: "You Asked For Change, We Gave You Coins"
From btc_artist: "Bitcoin -- Of the People, for the People"

Other ideas:

"Bitcoin: Your change has arrived" (a variation of casascius' "change" theme)
"Bitcoin: The money of the people, by the people, for the people" (a variation of btc_artist's Gettysburg theme)
"Bitcoin: The new paradigm in money"
"Bitcoin: The people's bailout" (my personal favorite)

"electronic money"
"e-money"
"e-cash"
"electronic gold"
"e-gold"
"for us, by us"--taken from someone else on these boards...but I like it too.

Sixty Minutes, not Six Months! - for Final Settlement use Bitcoin!

-MarkM-

"the emerging currency of the 21st Century"
"The Internet's Gold Standard"
"Internet Gold"
"cyber gold"
"the currency of the 21st Century"

Is my favorite, it's playful and meaningful


Both good... but too US-centric

e-cash, e-gold, anything with gold in, ... not really felling those.

Global money for the global age

Bitcoin: because if its good enough for A Good Wife its good enough for a hubby.

(Main objective is it needs research to even begin not to "WTF" so might motivate some searches. Or might not.)

I like the first one from the other thread.

bitcoin, decentralizing world domination

Gold rush in cyberspace...

Bitchin' Bitcoin

Hope in Change

Open Change

"Free Currency"

Honest Money

The Fastest Way To Pay Around The World

Whoa, a hole lot of suggestions. I wonder how many items the poll can have.  :D

God made Man, Then He Made Bitcoin

"Hold the presses"

 I have been known to have a creative idea now and again.  How about:

• Like Cash, only better!
  
  Cash 2.0  or money 2.0
  
  digital cash - simple!
  
  Money Made Better
  

If you are looking for a tagline, I would have thought it needs to be a positive message to grow usage rather than to push an ideological idea which may do more harm than good.

Its not that its a bad ideology, its just that an idea which isn't put into context will get a life of its own.  That is where forums become useful! ;)

Bitcoin is an experiment. (Fair warning)

Bitcoin: It doesn't suck!

+1

The slogan should be short and easy to understand for everybody around the world. Also it should transport a positive... vibration.

I have selected some of the above and put them in random order. Feel free to extend or edit:

+1

I love that I managed to get two into the list, but my vote goes to:


Open Change


+1.01 ;)

Somewhat serious :
- Free money
- Money you really own
- Money without banks

Just for fun :
- The new money on the block
- Clever bits, fine coins !
- The free side of the coin
- In soviet russia, bitcoin owns you

.

bitcoin - you always win

or

bitcoin - you win always

bitcoin - global secure payment

My 2 Satoshi's:

Bitcoin - P2P Money
Bitcoin - The Type I Civilization Currency has arrived.
Bitcoin - Money tha't doesn't sucks.

Bitcoin, because someone, somewhere doesn't want cash.

Poll is open!


If there are more ideas I will be happy to add them to the list.

In a day or two I will remove the slogans that got the least votes.

Safety in numbers

Strength in Numbers

Wouldn't it be better to make it possible to vote for more than one slogan? Three perhaps?

yes, that would be much better but as far as I know it is not possible.

I added it to the poll already.  :)

I like this!  Although it's almost too subtle.

yeah, I worry if normal people will get it.

We have been working on creating positive media attention and on getting people and businesses interested in Bitcoin here in Berlin for almost two years now.

From this experience I can say that there is precisely one idea that seems to catch everybody right away and makes them go like "Wait! What?!" and that is the idea of a world without banks. The following three catchphrases have proven to gain almost everybodies immediate attention when I was talking to people:

- Banking without banks. -
- Say goodbye to banks! -
- Unbank yourself! -

(the first one even made it to the frontpage of a greek newspaper.)

Everything else takes a lot longer to inspire people. It seems that the outlook of being able to do business without using banks or to rid society from the banks alltogether is an idea, that unites about everyone on the planet these days.

Regards,

Joe

I like this one.

It's also on the Casascius coins in latin: Vires in Numeris. Although there is uncertainty surrounding the correct translation: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38115.0

I don't get it. Is it a modification of something popular?   Is it a play of words: cryptography/many people??

bitcoins buy freedom

hmm how would that go as tagline?

Bitcoin
Buy Freedom

I like "Strength in Numbers".
It's a nice double entendre that those in the BTC will understand immediately.
As a side benefit it'll probably be attractive to socialists (which if they buy into Bitcoin would actually undermine their statist goals!)

Real Money

"Free Your Money"

"Money Made Amazing"

A 2011 forum discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4994.40) covers some of the layers of meaning. I'm probably not adding anything to the discussion, but here are the layers of meaning in my mind, and I like them all:

• So, "strength in numbers" is a commonly used phrase in English, and although I'm no Latin scholar, the fact that the Latin phrase shows up in a bunch on Google search results suggests to me that it's a pretty old expression. Kudos to the wonderfully terse Romans. If they said it, it must be true.
• Cryptography's utility is due to mathematics, so we can consider the "strength" of cryptography to be due to "numbers" (okay, that's a little simplistic for a crypto definition, but simplicity and double entendre are what's nice about the slogan).
• A currency's utility is partly due to the number of people who accept it, so we can consider the currency's "strength" to be due to "numbers" of users.
• Bitcoin's utility is based on both the strength of cryptography and the size of the user base, so its "strength" is due to "numbers" both ways.

My only change to the slogan would be to write it as "Strength in Num฿ers".

thanks for the insight and the link. Now that I get it I like it, too.

I think its an exceptionally clever tagline, but I don't like it - its got a feeling of socialism and slight intimidation about it!

That my just be my UK background, and I'm sure it was a tagline used by one of the big unions here!

This is true. But seeing as how socialism has steamrollered over free societies over the last century, maybe there's a couple of things they're doing correctly.

To be sure, strength in numbers is a good thing when the numbers associating are doing so on a voluntary basis.

Bitcoin - Large of exchange 

It might sound a little aggressive towards the establishment.



sorry, I don't quite get it, please elaborate

Here are my slogan suggestions:

- "How Much Control Do You Want Over Your Money?"

- "All the Control You Want Over Your Money"

- "Full Control Over Your Money"

- "In the Future, You Will Have Full Control Over Your Money"

FROM NOW ON NEW SUGGESTIONS WILL NEED A +1 BEFORE I WILL ADD THEM TO THE POLL


Also I am thinking about removing entries with 0 votes in a couple of days.

Monetary (R)evolution

'nuff said...

*chuckle*

"Your bank is in your pocket!"

I removed these suggestions with 0 votes:
True Money
Decentralizing World Domination
Gold rush in cyberspace
Hold the Presses
Open Change
Of the People, for the People
Full Control Over Your Money
In The Internet We Trust


I will remove suggestions with 1 vote in a couple of days to allow for some consolidation.

+1 !

(edited:)

Could be I missed that post. Added the first and the last. "Goodbye" is too negative imho.

From all the bank related slogans I like "be your own bank" best, though.

Also added "Monetary (R)evolution" with +1 from me  :)

got coin  :D

All your coins are belong to you. (All your base are belong to us.)  :D

Well, since "strength in numbers" seems to be leading the poll, I thought I'd throw in my to satoshis regarding the Latin translation. Source: rusty remnants of one year of high-school latin, and native tongue that features latin-like cases and declensions.

in numeris vis

I am a proud owner of a 2011 T-shirt saying "Vires in numeris" - is this posed to become a precious collectible akin to all those postage stamps with typos or other errors?

In my opinion it is too hard to understand. Will add if anybody gives it a +1


With all these slogans against banks and revolutionary slogans I wonder if everybody is aware that Bitcoin will NOT solve all problems, especially not by force. Bitcoin will make rich people richer and also there will be Bitcoin banks.

Agree. The latin is neat for coins and even for t-shirts and whatnot but I think the primary form should be the English one.

Though an interesting way to stress the international aspect in some circumstances would be to have it listed in many different languages. Perhaps a new thread if it's accepted?

Hah, just thought of another. Don't expect it to make the cut but...

E Pluribus Argentum

Pardon my Latin :D

lose the "The", just 'World Money' it's clean...

Bitcoin - World Money
Bitcoin - The Virtual Standard

'Strength in Numbers' is pretty clever.

Bitcoin "bank of Me"

"Bitcoin is like a spoon. It can be used to do good or evil."

The future of money.

I have removed all suggestions that got 1 or two votes and moved them to the hall of fame in the op.

Feel free to recast your votes.


2 votes:
The Free Currency
World Money
P2P Money
Global Money for the Global Age
Money Made Better
for us, by us
Sound Money for a Digital Age
the currency of the 21st Century
Real Money

1 vote:
Global Secure Payment
Honest Money
The Accounting Standard of the Internet
The Monetary (R)evolution.
Banking without Banks.
Unbank Yourself!

last aggregation round.

Retired to the hall of fame:
5 votes
Digital Gold      my personal favorite, it really hurts to remove it  :'(

4 votes
Money 2.0
The People's Bailout

3 votes
Free Money
21st Century Money
Gold 2.0
Free Your Money


fee free to recast your vote.

I intend to leave the poll open.

More real than real money

Bankster Punch!

Disregard Fiat

Acquire Bitcoin

In Bitcoin we trust!

dollar down the toilet, bitcoin in my wallet.

dollar is in shame, bitcoin wins the game.

;)

hehe  :D

"money without borders"

"Bitcoin is Better"

And I wonder why suddenly everybody and his dog votes for "An idea worth spending"

http://www.rugatu.com/questions/9205/an-idea-worth-spending

Parapain, WTF?  :D LOL

That's looks like plenty of paid votes, I think I will have to disqualify "An idea worth spending".

Where did you say in the rules that paid votes weren't allowed?

That's the whole point of a vote so no need to say it explicitly. Also I make up rules as we go: Paid votes are not allowed.  :P

:P

Suit yourself, but if you read my question you will see people have voted whatever they wanted, I just tipped the ones that voted what I did. Btw the slogan is not mine, it was around this community for more than a year, just wanted the newbies to hear about it ;)

Just like psy said, where did you stated this was against the rules?

Where in the rules did it say he couldn't make up the rules as he goes along?

Good point  :)

I still think it's the best slogan @phelix and you didn't even read the question on Rugatu, people have voted what they wanted, see their answers if you don't believe me. It could be that it got more attention from Rugatu than bitcointalk.

I still like "digital gold" the best and had to remove it, too.

OK I looked through the Rugatu posts and to me it is quite clear that while you certainly drove traffic here you also influenced people heavily. I estimate about 15 votes influenced votes for your slogan.

This is the best comment: "(Did that more from the money than from a personal choice, but, personally, I don't care)."

Like what the heck do I care about Bitcoin just give me the $0.45...

I'm pretty sure "In Math We Trust" would work better than "In Crypto We Trust" because the average person doesn't know what crypto is, but already associates math with concepts like reliability, correctness, and objectivity.

A numbered Swiss bank account in your shirt pocket.

Unfortunately quite some people have a bad association with math. What about "In Numbers We Trust"?
 

It's all conjecture unless we test it with focus group studies, but I don't think people have negative associations with math itself as much as that have negative associations with studying math.

People don't use phrases like "mathematical precision" in order to evoke negative associations. That tells me that people trust and value math, but hate doing it themselves.

The first thing that comes to mind when I think about "In Numbers We Trust" is Mark Twain's quote about statistics.

I liked "An idea worth spending", but unfortunately, Bitcoin is not Freicoin, if we're honest it's more "an idea worth hoarding".  :P


seems to be too broad. What numbers? A bit like "In Numerology We Trust".

Meh, whatever...

http://ritesofpatches.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/meh-cat.jpg?w=150&h=137

I saw first-hand how well "Banking without Banks" works.
That's my vote.
Include it back into the vote already! :-)

Ente

dude, it only got one vote. yours I assume :)

Also "Be Your Own Bank" says pretty much the same but in a cooler and more positive way.


"Digital Gold" is the best slogan anyway, all the other votes were bought I am sure!

Bitcoin does not exclude Bitcoin banks.

..as I didn't suggest that slogan, it has at least two. I guess it's up to you to keep track of that?

Thank you for deciding on the best slogan by yourself.
Mind to explain this poll, anyway?
:-P

Ente

edit:
Also, I don't understand why there are a) highly-visible poll-entries, b) less visible entries in the OP, and c) "lurk moar in this thread". If this isn't an obvious method of steering the outcome of this "poll" I don't know what.

You got it all wrong.

It went like this:

Phase 1: Nominations only
Phase 2: Poll started, still open to nominations
Phase 3: Late nominations need +1 from someone else
Phase 4: 0 vote suggestions removed
Phase 5: 1 & 2 vote suggestions removed
Phase 6: 3, 4 & 5 vote suggestions removed

The idea behind all this? As this poll system is quite simple and does not allow a ranked vote I had to enforce some aggregation. I did this by removing suggestions that clearly would not win so that voters were urged to recast their vote.

If I could assure secure voting I would bet a couple of BTC that your suggestion would not win especially as there is a very well received similar alternative. Still I think adding it now would only make things more complicated.

(will edit op with the sophisticated procedure model above :D)

This.

Simple and any idiot can understand it whether they know about tech or not. it also brings to mind(at least for me) the positives about the internet and where we were before the internet and where we are now that we have it. it also avoids any silly gimmicky names or titles that people commonly associate with random companies they dont care about or trust.

to me it says "this product is the most amazing thing since the internet, and if you know the good thats come from the internet then you can only imagine how good our product is".

Thanks for explaining calmly and professionally, much appreciated in this forum! ;-)
Right, I see, I simply read around here "too late" and got a funny impression.

Cheers,

Ente

Several good suggestions. I like "strength in numbers", it sounds cool in Latin "Fortitudo in numeris".

..isn't it "vires in numeris"? At least that's what my Casascius coins say ;-)
I like that slogan, by the way! Maybe not that mass-compatible, but neat!

Ente

Money 2.0

I don't get a clear translation of Strength in numbers, so I vote for Be your own bank.

- Toy Money Gone Real

- Money Changes Everything. Bitcoin Changes Money.

LOVE IT!

hmm seems a little long for a tagline. will add it for psy's +1......

kinda missed that. +1 from me and added to the list.


What about:
The Future of Banking.

Welcome to the Future.

I like "The future of money" the most out of that list. It's the simplest, clearest. Doesn't try to be clever. Everyone will understand.

"The Future Of Money" is also a book title from Bernard Lietaer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lietaer) though:

http://www.amazon.com/Future-Money-Bernard-Lietaer/dp/0712699910

And he doesn't really like Bitcoin afaik.

Then we don't give a damn about his book  ;D       Might be trademarked or something, though.

"Freedom is free, until you lose it."  (translated in Latin)

dude, it had no chance to get more because it took you a week after it was posted to include it in the poll and people who wanted to vote it couldn't. Once it was up and I mailed them and informed them I got the answer "no, not anymore, it flew out because it had no votes".


Don't you read your own thread?



No it does not. But you would not understand the difference nor would you want to. But that does not matter.

I was not going to argue that with you here, I didn't care and left the thread. As I have mentioned before this is no corporation wit some Chief Corporate Identity Officer or something. You use whatever you find works best for you and so do I.

But please don't pretend this would in some way be a neutral vote while you arbitrarily throw in and out whatever suits you.

Have fun!

Joe

It's not easy to keep everybody happy and still make progress while keeping things casual. Sorry your suggestion was only up for two days. It was a late nomination. I still don't think it has a chance but I put it back in. Hope you are happy. If not please make your own poll so you get to be Chief Corporate Identity Officer and I get to rant.

Please note all this can only be a casual vote as it can be too easily influenced.

Immer des G'schieß mit die Berliner. [~"Always trouble with the Berlin guys."]   :P     <waiting for the storm>

One thing sure is nice about:

Bitcoin
Be Your Own Bank.

It's got plenty of "B"s.  :D

Bitcoin - "Something From Nothing"

Encrypted money, baby! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qooBzE2w)

This isn't true though.

guys. seriously?


It's a bad coincidence that "Be Your Own Bank" is first. We never know if that influences the poll. I can not move it down, though.

Money backed by natural resources.

EDIT: accurate but kind of evil too

Should we go for a final decision between the two front-runners?

Bitcoin -- Truth in money.

dunno how that sounds but it's what comes to mind.

This one's quite good.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bnz2y/mo_money_mo_problems/

https://i.imgur.com/kFIWDbz.png

It's Time for Plan BTC!

"Power 2 the People"

I still like "We'll take it from here" from the this is a revolution or whatever thread.

If someone could fix this up nice it would make a great poster.

Maybe business cards. Just leave em lying around.

it's great. this picture would fit nicely, too: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:G7_Finance_ministers.jpg
There are Bernanke and Draghi and others...

edit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90138.msg1747550#msg1747550

bitcoin user: "tax me if you can!"

has this been suggested?

"Bitcoin Change"

wow

See my new sig:

Free money, buy bitcoins!

Let's go for the gusto.

Recast your vote if you dare.  :D

From paper 'Scripto 2 Crypto'

"We'll regulate the shit out of ourselves!"

"Separation of Money and State."

Only the last two entries with the highest votes in the last round are left in the poll.

Just sayin'..

Ente

yup. NO MORE NOMINATIONS! Please (re)cast your vote to get us a final winner for this poll.

I know Im bringing up an old thread, but I wanted to avoid a rehash of this topic by creating a new thread.
Anyways, Im tryin to come up w/ an extremely catchy slogan for a car window sticker.
Many of the ones in the OP are great and they are all in for consideration.

The one Ive come up w/ thus far is "Bitcoin, cuz banks suck!"

Im looking for something that would grab the average joes attention immediately, yet encompass bitcoin at the same time and from that create genuine curiosity.

Let me know what you guys think or if can come up w/ additional ones that would be appropriate for car window sticker. Thanks!

Not sure if you're still looking for one but I thought of this the other day.

Once you understand bitcoin, you get it.

Not too flashy, but might get their gears turnin'.

First time I've ever seen this: http://www.rugatu.com/questions/9205/an-idea-worth-spending

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/4372/beztytuukzr.png

currency of common people

Far too many people are incapable of "being their own bank" so take that one off the list. 

That only leaves one option in the poll I believe.

The Future of Money

99% of users are incapable to read sourcecode.
Still, being FOSS is an advantage for everybody, and there are enough people who will refuse closed source software altogether in some situations. Think encryption software for example.

Ente

Bitcoin, the only thing keeping it alive is the greed for USD.

Bitcoin
Revenge of the Nerds.


p.s. Please note this poll is closed.

Bitcoin: My bank.

revisiting with some GFX:

http://blockchained.com/stuff/logo_slogan.svg