Feathercoin vs. FTC
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I was recently thinking that there’s a big difference between referring to our coin as FeatherCoin vs. FTC.
Political campaigns like to use their candidate’s first name when referring to them in order to instill a sense of personal connection and trustworthiness among the voters. There’s a big difference between our buddy Hillary and Senator Clinton (i’m not a fan, sorry if you love both of them the same)
In the exchanges, we usually refer to coins by their 3 letter acronyms. There are many good reasons for this. However, if we want to instill a sense of connection between the people and the currency, referring to it by its real name would be a pretty easy/effective way of doing this. The acronym is a really shallow and sterile depiction of the currency and community that it seeks to represent. Of course there are people who hate the name itself and use this as some ridiculous reason to disparage it, but we shouldn’t be catering to them anyway. What do you guys think? Would spending an extra 8 letters worth of typing into the trollbox be too large of an investment?
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I’ve thought about this before and you have drawn attention to an awareness that most people would dismiss at the conscious level.
I would prefer Feathercoin, and not sure if we should be spelling it FeatherCoin? But when I chat in the Trollbox I often use FTC because I think most people will recognise it. But I agree it is a compromise.
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I too like saying its full name, although I also spell it Feathercoin. It seems more professional to me to call it fully rather than to abbreviate it, especially when giving knowledgeable replies to criticisms and what not.
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[b]For me[/b], on BTC-e the coin is a stock and that stocks symbol is FTC.
FTC is a representation of the public’s current value placed in the coin (Feathercoin).
Away from BTC-e it’s money called Feathercoin.
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Similar to Coke & Coca-Cola < Everyone knows what they are.
Anything but Cola though :)
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I use FTC when people will know what I mean. When I’m writing in a venue where people may not have heard of FTC… I type Feathercoin ( FTC ).