Historical domain name purchase data suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin - BTC, had an alternative name option in mind that did not make it into the whitepaper.
Bitcoin.org, the website domain linked to the original Bitcoin, was created on August 18, 2008, under AnonymousSpeech, a service in Japan that allowed users to purchase domain names anonymously. Domain purchases under AnonymousSpeech around similar dates revealed the creation of Netcoin.org on August 17, 2008, just one day before the creation of Bitcoin.org.
Coming up with a good name is often one of the hardest decisions to make when launching a new service or business.
A day before the https://t.co/oDfOFzFVNi domain was first registered, someone purchased https://t.co/KLzoDxJjrz using the same registrar. Looks like Satoshi was contemplating between the two names and later dropped https://t.co/KLzoDxJjrz#Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/yqwZYRefvX
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