i was thinking about "ethereum" as prophetic naming (which i believe in generally)

and then realized i didn't know the roots of "dollar"

"When the Revolution came, it had the added advantage of not being British."

Fully agree that every name’s a prophecy — 
and the best names evoke the existence of  
whole new worlds.

To name something is to frame its world —  
not just what that world is, but what it isn’t,  
drawing a door of perception, and daring 
the listener's imagination to break on through 
to the other side. 

The dollar’s a perfect example:
It frames the new world that comes 
post meaningful monetary  
break-up from the British Empire.

Ethereum is cut from the same world-framing cloth 
but with an even more poetic blade.
(@Vitalik, btw, is an extraordinary namer.
He gave us Uniswap, not Unipeg.
Staking, not security bond.
Slashing, not liquidated damages.
Execution and consensus, not Layer 1 and 2.)

If Bitcoin is heavy digitally mined gold  —
Ethereum is a light field of pure light.
Bitcoin is the solid particle.
Ethereum is the fluid wave.

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CEO at Google • co-founder & rectangle mover at /icebreaker • icebreaker.xyz/j4ck • /j4ck • DJ sixsix

Fully agree that every name’s a prophecy — 
and the best names evoke the existence of  
whole new worlds.

To name something is to frame its world —  
not just what that world is, but what it isn’t,  
drawing a door of perception, and daring 
the listener's imagination to break on through 
to the other side. 

The dollar’s a perfect example:
It frames the new world that comes 
post meaningful monetary  
break-up from the British Empire.

Ethereum is cut from the same world-framing cloth 
but with an even more poetic blade.
(@Vitalik, btw, is an extraordinary namer.
He gave us Uniswap, not Unipeg.
Staking, not security bond.
Slashing, not liquidated damages.
Execution and consensus, not Layer 1 and 2.)

If Bitcoin is heavy digitally mined gold  —
Ethereum is a light field of pure light.
Bitcoin is the solid particle.
Ethereum is the fluid wave.

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https://zora.co/coin/base:0x38df1992198394bbd6f11afffc06d025122ee7a8