Where Did The Name "Bitcoin" Come From?

[bitcoinik]

It could come from "b-money", the essay by Wei Dai from 1998 that was cited in Satoshi's paper on Bitcoin. Or it could come from something decentralized like "BitTorrent" combined with coin. I'm not sure, what do you think?

[bitcoincasinosupport]

http://www.hashcash.org/

[b!z]

Money = coin
Code = Bit

[BitcoinFX]

Or perhaps it is actually Bitkwein ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167960.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206630.0

"Matias established the Research and Development Center of Google in Israel. He leads the development of Google products such as Google Trends, Google Suggest, and Google Insights for Search, and pioneered an initiative to bring cultural and heritage collections online, such as the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum archive, and the Dead Sea Scrolls."

I love conspiracy theories. "Google and the World Brain"... what ?

[Binford 6100]

I think it's from french
bit - penis

[jdbtracker]

Could be from england? Where in the hell would they call money Coin? I'm thinking like old english crime movies, or in those planescape/Dungeons & Dragons games, but thinking about the mint Gold coins? Law? There are a lot of different places where they call money coin, who knows but it definitely feels like it's from fiction or a bad translation? BitMoney/BitCash could have worked too.

Can you imagine one day a scene from avatar with this change.

They can fix a spinal, if you've got the Coin. But not on vet benefits, not in this economy.

The strong prey on the weak. A guy with a Knife took all Tommy would ever be, for the Bitcoin in his wallet. 2154... a Bitcoin would be worth millions.