Your username

[Garrett Burgwardt]

So how did you all come up with your usernames?

I'm The Kid cause I started going to LANs when I was around 13 or so, and the name stuck. Not a terribly interesting story, but I'm in an interesting position where I'm no longer a kid really, but people are very used to calling me Kid, and I don't really want to get a new name. Maybe I'll just confuse people 

Share your stories, I'm curious!

[kiba]

I got it from Wolf's Rain.

[Nefario]

I got mine from the film despicable me.

[grondilu]

Being anonymous is bad for biz. So I am not.

+1

My username is made out of my real name.

[ribuck]

Ribuck is an old Australian slang term meaning "the real thing" or "genuine" or "fair dinkum". It's also spelled ryebuck, as in the Australian song The Ryebuck Shearer.

[Garrett Burgwardt]

Being anonymous is bad for biz. So I am not.

+1

My username is made out of my real name.

Then you sir, have an awesome real name 

[grondilu]

Then you sir, have an awesome real name 

During my studies the sysadmins had some weird rule to come up with 8 letters-longed usernames.  They used to take the first 6 letters of the name, and the 2 first letters of the firstname.  With my name, this gave "grondilu" and I thought it sounded pretty cool.  So I kept it later on.

[Anonymous]

I occasionally listen to the noagenda podcast which has a large following of listeners . When I discovered bitcoin I first tried to setup a market site for people to list products like craigslist. I thought it would combine the two to get extra visitors.

I wish it was more exciting than that really

[Anonymous]

It's a pen name.

[lumos]

lumos comes from esperanto and means will shine.

[grondilu]

lumos comes from esperanto and means will shine.

Bonvolu skribi al la esperanta ejo cxi tie

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1568.0

[theymos]

I originally made mine for an RPG character: Theymos Amastica. It was created without much thought, being only a minor adjustment of the "Thamior" and "Amastacia" names given as elven name examples in the D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook. I began using it for all of my online game accounts, as well, and then I used it even for non-game accounts so I wouldn't have to remember multiple usernames. (At this point most of my online accounts were game-related.)

I sometimes wish that I had chosen something better and more meaningful, though it is nicely unique: almost all Google results for "theymos" are related to me. It would be very difficult to change at this point, after using it for 5+ years.

[gigitrix]

I occasionally listen to the noagenda podcast which has a large following of listeners . When I discovered bitcoin I first tried to setup a market site for people to list products like craigslist. I thought it would combine the two to get extra visitors.

I wish it was more exciting than that really

...in the morning!

[左]

It is the Chinese character for "left" and, so means "left" in both Japanese and Chinese.

[davout]

Comes from a stupid french play on words : "davoûte plantaire".

EDIT : Later realized that a big parisian street was named boulevard Davout

[bitcool]

bitcool = bitcoin is cool. plain, lame but true.

[dirtyfilthy]

Mine's from a song by GWAR called "dirty,filthy".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqhlfcXD7Vc

[dingus]

Mine's from a song by GWAR called "dirty,filthy".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqhlfcXD7Vc

+1 for GWAR


My name means any unspecified or unspecifiable object; something one does not know the name of or does not wish to name.   

[Veltas]

I know this topic's dead but I wanted to be with the cool kids:

My internet name is Veltas Vandegere, I've used it for about 4 years now.  The first occurrence of the name is for my Guild Wars character but I liked it and now use it for everything.  My real name is Chris (Christopher), and Veltas isn't for anonymity reasons, I just like having an internet name.

[dingus]

I know this topic's dead but I wanted to be with the cool kids:

My internet name is Veltas Vandegere, I've used it for about 4 years now.  The first occurrence of the name is for my Guild Wars character but I liked it and now use it for everything.  My real name is Chris (Christopher), and Veltas isn't for anonymity reasons, I just like having an internet name.

But, what does it mean???