At least the Digital Monetary Trust emerged from the rubble and morphed into Bitcoin.
Digital Monetary Trust? Interesting.
Here's a tidbit: Before Butterfly Labs was Butterfly Labs, they were known as DigiComLabs (they still have not found and excised every reference to that in their source code).
I always took the "Com" part to stand for computing or communications. What if it stood for Commerce?
http://web.archive.org/web/20110705043551/http://digicomlabs.com/At Butterfly Labs, we design & manufacture a line of high speed encryption processor chips. These specialized chips power our proprietary supercomputer systems.
Applications
- Data Packet integrity verification
- SHA256 Hash processing
- High speed transaction authorization
- Optical communications fingerprinting
Our customers are primarily from the government, military, telecommunications and banking industries. We have also found interest among hobbyists and research facilities who are in need of a superior alternative to GPU data processing arrays.
Our customers were primarily from the government, military, telecommunications and banking industries, but they got tired of us waiting for product. Luckily, we stumbled upon some neat hobbyists interested in improving their online mining operations, willing to pre-order to be first in line to replace their current processing arrays.