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Maybe you're thinking of Etherium or other smart-contract systems, Etherium is a system where things like that happen automatically. With Bitcoin, the only thing you have is a secure (but static) ledger of who (which wallet/id) has what bitcoins. Any transfers have to be "manually" and just recorded by the blockchain.

Of course, the automatic processes in Etherium produce a bunch of other weird effects.



Where does this Etherium-meme(?) come from? I’ve seen several people writing Etherium and Monaro instead of Ethereum and Monero on mailing lists, but never understood what it means and where it comes from.


Maybe 'cause they're phonetically similar?


You tell me!

So, there is no interesting lore behind it?


Since when is bad spelling a meme?


This particular misspelling happens often enough (on this forum) that I don't think it's unreasonable to think that some people are doing it intentionally as a form of trolling.


It must be a meme, especially since a quick search reveals that joe_the_user wrote it correctly 1 year ago!


My gawd, I'm moderately dyslexic and I need to check my spelling on everything unusual. I generally succeed but this time I didn't. It's truly bizarre that you think there's anything weird here.

Overall, I'd suspect people not immersed in the crypto world would easily fall into a spelling that "sounds" like they remember it - spelling phonetically is a lousy way to spell but some percentage of the world does it.


Oh, nevermind then.




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