The world's most valuable and well-known cryptocurrency was born under an almost completely different name.
The story goes back to 2008, to the registration of some domain names. It just so happened that on August 18, 2008, a mysterious organization, Anonymous Speech LLC, registered the Bitcoin.org domain name. In the name of anonymity, Satoshi Nakamoto, the father of Bitcoin, gave the address of the organization as 133 Sakura House, Tokyo.
However, the same company also registered the domain name Netcoin.org a day earlier. So Bitcoin was not the only option for Satoshi, who had no idea at the time that in 13 years his cryptocurrency would be worth $68,000 and everyone would know what it was about when they mentioned it.
The discovery was made by Or Weinberger, who specializes in recovering lost wallet passwords.
According to Twitter followers, Bitcoin sounds much better and more attention-grabbing than Netcoin, which they think is too “nerdy” a term.
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