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I thought of a new name today for digital cash: CRASH, taken from CRypto cASH. "How much crash have you got in your account? Can we FTP this GIF?" "Not enough... Hey, can I borrow some crash?" It has a nice cyberpunk sound to it. I don't know if we need a name for the units, or if we could just get by without. One of the lessons of the CP publicity is that having a sexy name is a big plus. (Apologies if I'm unknowingly regurgitating someone else's idea!) Hal
# I thought of a new name today for digital cash: CRASH, taken from # CRypto cASH. "How much crash have you got in your account? Can we FTP # this GIF?" "Not enough... Hey, can I borrow some crash?" It has a nice # cyberpunk sound to it. I don't know if we need a name for the units, # or if we could just get by without. at georgia tech the organization that provides computer services to the campus keeps accounting records in units commonly known as BANANAs. the name is not official, but it was a brainstorm by the head guy in charge of the department some years ago, and the name stuck: Basic Allocation Negotiable Across Network Applications. And when you blow your account gaming, you do have to beg for more bananas. # One of the lessons of the CP publicity is that having a sexy name is # a big plus. right, bananas are hardly c-punk enough. --strick
>I thought of a new name today for digital cash: CRASH, taken from >CRypto cASH. And of course 'snow crash' would be 'cocaine money', allowing us to read an entirely new subtext in Stephenson's novel. Eric