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Mainly because it is short, memorable, effectively leads the listener to in=
fer the proper meaning, is culturally neutral, is easy to say by speakers o=
f just about any language, and many other reasons.=20
Mike
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> On Apr 20, 2014, at 12:23 PM, "Arne Brutschy" <abrutschy@xylon.de> wrote:
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> Pluk, or cred, or finney (as proposed the thread I posted), or
> whichever. We could call it "unsp" for unspent ;)
>=20
> Arne
>=20
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