Satoshi Nakamoto Contemplated This Name Before Choosing Bitcoin 

Domain data reveals Satoshi Nakamoto had other name in mind for bitcoin.

Creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, contemplated writing Netcoin on white paper instead of bitcoin.

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A day before the bitcoin.org domain was first registered, someone purchased netcoin.org using the same registrar.

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Bitcoin.org was created on Aug. 18, 2008 on AnonymousSpeech, a domain marketplace.

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Netcoin.org was created on Aug. 17, 2008 with the same domain registrar.

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Crypto researcher who goes by the name Weinberger on Twitter revealed that no content was created on Netcoin.org. The domain was later purchased by someone else.

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The mystery behind the creation of bitcoin continues to remain an unsolved puzzle.

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Bitcoin currently has a market capitalization of around $365.55 billion.

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