Mainly because it is short, memorable, effectively leads the listener to infer the proper meaning, is culturally neutral, is easy to say by speakers of just about any language, and many other reasons.
Mike Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 20, 2014, at 12:23 PM, "Arne Brutschy" <abruts...@xylon.de> wrote: > > agree that overloading isn't an issue when necessary, but my point was > that the necessity is lacking. If we're free to pick anything, why pick > something that is overloaded? > > Moreover, "bit" is an abbreviation of bitcoin and might be confused with > it. Most currencies use a work that is phonetically very different and > short, so why not do the same? > > Pluk, or cred, or finney (as proposed the thread I posted), or > whichever. We could call it "unsp" for unspent ;) > > Arne > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
