the plural & capitalization of bitcoin?

[bitspill]

technically it is btc or if you are anal about it BTC

Or is it technically XBT?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

on capitalization, I like this lots:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Introduction#Capitalization_.2F_Nomenclature

Accepted practice is to use Bitcoin (singular with an upper case letter B) to label the protocol, software, and community, and bitcoins (with a lower case b) to label units of the currency.

but when it comes to the plural, I can't find solid info.  Personally I've been using bitcoin as the plural. 

"I have 5 bitcoin" instead of "I have 5 bitcoins"

then it gets hairy with fractions... do you have "0.8234 bitcoin" or "0.8234 bitcoins"

when looking at the SwC FAQ we write "Why do bitcoins have value?"  should it be "Why do bitcoin have value?" because that sounds fucked when reading it in my head.

technically its bitcoinz

Did you mean internetly?

[Tirapon]

on capitalization, I like this lots:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Introduction#Capitalization_.2F_Nomenclature

Accepted practice is to use Bitcoin (singular with an upper case letter B) to label the protocol, software, and community, and bitcoins (with a lower case b) to label units of the currency.

but when it comes to the plural, I can't find solid info.  Personally I've been using bitcoin as the plural. 

"I have 5 bitcoin" instead of "I have 5 bitcoins"

then it gets hairy with fractions... do you have "0.8234 bitcoin" or "0.8234 bitcoins"

when looking at the SwC FAQ we write "Why do bitcoins have value?"  should it be "Why do bitcoin have value?" because that sounds fucked when reading it in my head.

technically its bitcoinz

I like it. Can we make it official?

[Jocky]

... should it be "Why do bitcoin have value?" because that sounds fucked when reading it in my head.

It sounds fucked becouse it's "Why does Bitcoin have value?".

Plural is difficult. The system revolves around chopping Bitcoin up and putting it back together so in essence there is not 'a Bitcoin'.
But this compare this:

"I've moved all of my Bitcoin to a cold wallet" - "Where did you put it?"
"I've moved all of my Bitcoins to a cold wallet" - "Where did you put them?"

'All of my Bitcoin' sounds goot to me, but 'Where did you put it?' doesn't seem right.
'All of my Bitcoins' can't be correct, however, I do like 'where did you put them?'.

Difficult...

[illpoet]

i has many bitcoinz!

[Kouye]

I'd say:

1 Bitcoin
x Bitcoins
0.1 Bitcoin
0.x Bitcoins
0.0001 Bitcoin
0.000x Bitcoins

with x being anything else than 1 (101 is different than 1).

[dserrano5]

Not a native speaker but:

"I've moved all of my Bitcoin to a cold wallet" - "Where did you put it?"

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'All of my Bitcoin' sounds goot to me, but 'Where did you put it?' doesn't seem right.

"I've moved all of my sugar to another place" - "Where did you put it?"

Sounds right to me, and uncountable bitcoin is just the same.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Thanks to this thread, I'm now proud to be of Homo Semantics decent.

[acoindr]

Interestingly the word coin itself can be both plural and singular: I dropped my coins. He inherits a lot of coin in the will.

While Merriam Webster doesn't show the plural use case and Oxford does, I believe those sentences are grammatically correct in both American and British English.

So I'd say as with much related to Bitcoin: do what you like  

[Anon136]

eh, if this thing ever goes mainstream everyone will just say bits anyway. "How much is that apple?", "Two bits please".

[DiamondCardz]

I should have known the British would fuck up my example.

Exceptions to every rule but generally currency units are plural.  
1 dollar,  15 dollars
1 euro, 15 euros
1 ruble, 15 rubles
1 bitcoin, 15 bitcoins
1 milliBitcoin, 15 milliBitcoins

1 pound, 15 quid.

Seriously, us British don't do normal.