Today, information appeared that Satoshi Nakamoto, presumably, could call bitcoin a little differently:
Judging by this find, it is possible that Satoshi chose between the names "netcoin" and "bitcoin", but chose the second option, or he prepared absolutely two projects, but the first one was not released at all. What other options do you allow?
If we look at the two nodes that were developed, then Netcoin was developed one day before Bitcoin. Netcoin on the 17th and Bitcoin on the 18th of August. I assume that the Netcoin nodes are only for testing the main Bitcoin Core network system. But Bitcoin is also developed in a testnet version so it does not require Netcoin as a test network. Another assumption is that someone is trying to imitate Bitcoin with the same node but a different name, namely Netcoin.
If we check the netcoin.org site registration, the site registration year does not match what is stated in the code. One year after the code was developed, the website was registered.
Unlike Bitcoin, the year of registration of the website is 2008, while the launch of Bitcoin is 2009. This is more real than Netcoin.