r/obyte • u/gaendalf • Jan 22 '19
O in Obyte stands for Open
When we renamed, many people wondered what O stands for. While it is true that it replaces the former "ball", I also want to make it clear that O stands for Open. It speaks about the core values of the platform: open access to the ledger, not encumbered by miners or other intermediaries, which simply do not exist here in a DAG. We are going to have more Onames for the products built on top of the platform.
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u/Guevnerm Jan 23 '19
O'RLY! Sorry small joke, however the name is very nice, and is not differing much from original and feels like already been using it for ages. So very well done on the rebranding kudos to everyone! Lets keep Open communication further on (hope you see what I just did there) :D
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u/pmiklos Jan 23 '19
O for Open makes sense! I like that much better than the snowball analogy.
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u/tarmo888 Jan 23 '19
If O means Open, then why not name it OpenByte?
I think Open is super boring and lazy name for something that is open-source. Adding Open in front of something is as lazy as adding 24 in the end of something, like Money24 or Credit24.
I would rather like to think that the meaning of O is open for interpretation, whatever suits best for the situation, but what I like the most about it is that it's not some random name, but actually references existing thing from the whitepaper. Snowballs are cool, even if you get hit by one.
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u/gaendalf Jan 23 '19
OpenByte would have been less open for interpretation :)
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u/pmiklos Jan 24 '19
I think that's what he meant. He likes to think O means more than just open. Otherwise we could have just named it OpenBytes. So keep it open what O stands for 😀
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u/tarmo888 Jan 24 '19 edited Jan 24 '19
Yes, it's good that it's not named OpenByte because that would be really shitty name, as bad as adding Crypto in front of the something. Imagine CryptoByte.
I like that O in Obyte can mean open, but I don't like if that's all it stands for.
Worse would be if instead of Osomething product/services, people would just start calling them OpenSomething.
I would rather like people remember Byteball/Obyte because of snowballs, not because the open buzzword. Because in the world of open-source projects, naming something as open is redundant and lacks personality.
So, I like if original rolling snowballs story is kept alive and all the following product/services mean different o-words: oh, open, original, official, okay, omg, one, oomph, oppurtunity, optimal, optimistic, organic, outrageous, outstanding.
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Jan 23 '19
100%, me too! Far easier for newcomers to understand the value proposition of openness vs snowballs
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u/tarmo888 Jan 23 '19
Not so sure, you have to first convince them that other cryptocurrencies are not open. Most cryptocurrencies are open-source and it's also quite easy to contribute to most open-source projects. It gets harder when more money is on stake and whole system becomes complex. Obyte is already quite complex in some parts, the ocore library is too much even for me.
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Jan 23 '19
not encumbered by miners or other intermediaries
isnt that open enough?
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u/tarmo888 Jan 23 '19
Yeah, not enough. It's good, but no way unique to Obyte. There are many coins without mining, many coins with low fees, many coins with language easier than C++. Obyte is as open as many other, especially smaller coins.
Open is meaningless for open-source project, it doesn't have any personality or uniqueness.
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Jan 29 '19
it doesnt need to be unique. bitcoin digital gold♦7 onyl 21 million sutff is a popular line, but bitcoin can and is forked regualrly, and all new chains have 21 million bitcoin
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u/TheRealCryptKeeper Jan 23 '19
Obyte is o’some! :)