I dunno, just 'credits' would probably seem confusing ("Hey, have you heard of Credits?"). I suppose Cryptocredit or Bitcredit would work, but pretty much every other cryptocurrency has a 'coin' suffix so it seems to be working ok so far.
I'm telling you man, whenever I explain this to people who are extremely non tech-savvy, I inevitably have to use pop-culture references anyway, and Credits are so well-known from sci-fi movies that it's what I end up using anyway.
At any case, the conversation doesn't go "Hey, have you heard of Credits?", Bitcoin is still the name for the technology. Just that when the time comes to explain how you get "Bitcoins", you say that you get Credits into your address in the ledger, and you can send Credits to other people in the system. That way you bypass the inevitable "But what is
a Bitcoin?" question, where I always have to explain that there's no such thing as "a" Bitcoin, and that it's just credits moving around in a virtual ledger.
Personally, we're all here at least somewhat tech savvy, so you could call it the Dog's Bollocks for all I care and it would still make just as much sense to me. But when explaining to people who don't know and don't care for techy stuff, I have to use pop-culture references, and "Bitcoin" just doesn't cut it. Sci-fi authors have already done the work for us in preparing people for futuristic digital currency called Credits. Might as well capitalize on it.
Especially since you know eventually we'll all use Satoshis anyway. Just rename Satoshis to Credits and done.
