Some think Satoshi did a disservice naming both the protocol/asset “B/bitcoin”…
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33 sats \ 1 reply \ @l0k18 3 Jul 2023
UTXO is the data equivalent of a coin, and it is made out of bits. It couldn't be more exact or generic.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoin_rationalist OP 3 Jul 2023
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheL0wner 3 Jul 2023
complete non-issue.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @jgbtc 3 Jul 2023
Did Satoshi come up with that distinction (B vs b) or did that come later from someone else?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @l0k18 3 Jul 2023
It's almost a universal convention in european languages due to the influence of germany to use the capital letter this way. Eastern europeans explicitly use a definite article, "the nature", eg "Природата" (bulgarian) or "Природа" (rest of E. Europe) where germans write "Natur" and don't say Der/Die/Das.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jgbtc 3 Jul 2023
Makes sense. I was just wondering if Satoshi was the one who suggested this convention. Some casual googling suggests it was someone else, and he never addressed this question. https://bitcoin.meta.stackexchange.com/a/22
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 3 Jul 2023
To me, it's always been Bitcoin (protocol), bitcoin(s) (UTXO(s)), and bitcoind the peer/node.
It's probably a sysadmin/programmer thing to prefer to use the program's executable filename to refer to it.
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