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Naming Poll: Index name, Contract name and abbreviations #17

Open CarboClanC opened 5 years ago

CarboClanC commented 5 years ago

We have a few names and terminologies floating around:

Index: Currently used: PoW Mining Index, BTC Mining Index (BMI), ETH Mining Index (EMI) Pros: intuitive, easy to remember Cons: not accurate enough, and BMI confuses with Body Mass Index. Not as straight forward as BTC Hashrate Futures, etc.

Contract: Currently used: Synthetic PoW Mining Index, Synthetic BTC Mining Contract, Synthetic ETH Mining Contract Pros: intuitive, easy to remember Cons: easily confused with cloud mining contracts, not as straight forward as "BTC Hashrate Futures" or "BTC Hashrate Contract" or "Difficulty Futures"

0xSSoul commented 5 years ago

Maybe "Hashrate Future" is a good simple choice for the contract. Consequently, use "Hashrate Future Index" for the index?

Bitcoin Hashrate Future Index （BHFI）?

0xSSoul commented 4 years ago

As memtioned in issue #44, this contract is a typical index futures contract. So I proposal some names: