Let's crowdsource name ideas for moeing/smartbch
I'm excited about this project, but I think it has a serious branding problem. I'm happy to see the creators are thinking about this and are not yet set in stone on the name (as evidenced by their recently changing it), and I'd like to see if we as a community can generate some ideas for them to consider using. Maybe we won't have any good ideas, or maybe the smartbch team will hate all our ideas, or maybe they don't read this sub and will never even hear about this post, but this is an important project so I think it's worth a try.
'Ethereum' is a good name - it hits lots of subconscious notes; ether, open spaces, sky, limitlessness, plus even though its a totally made-up word, "Ethereum" sounds like some exotic newly discovered element with as-yet unknown properties and use-cases. If Vitalik and friends had named it "decentralized global virtual state machine", it wouldn't tickle the soul quite the same way.
Okay I understand, "it's a smart contracts platform built on bitcoin cash - smartbch - what could be simpler?" But there's nothing catchy about that, it's hard to say out-loud, and it doesn't hit any of those subconscious notes. It's just a cold, metallic, abbreviated description of the thing.
I feel like the name shouldn't directly describe what the thing is or does, but should in some way capture or at least hint at what the project represents - so words i'm thinking about are free, open, unclogged, uncluttered, ubiquity, expanse, speed, space, horizon, universal, eminent, growth, power.
The name should probably be short and cool/easy/fun to say. 'smartbch' is 4 syllables. 2 would be better, 1 would be best. It doesn't even need to be real words; "Google" was a made-up word that sounded kinda like a real word that represented a super-big number.
Unfortunately, even if I'm right about all this, I'm not a wordsmith and also not creative so I don't have any good ideas. Do you?
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