Name for a new implementation of IPFS in JavaScript

[tinytb]

Update: After a runoff poll, Helia was selected.

Per State of IPFS in JS (blog post) and ipfs/helia#3, we're seeking a name for a new implementation of IPFS in JavaScript.

Things you can do:

1. Make a name proposal

If you would like to make a name proposal, please create a new "answer" and fill in this template:

*Proposed name:* 

# {YourNameHere} / {OptionalAlternativeSpelling}

*Reason it’s great:* 

*How it reads in multiple sentences:* 
1. Add a directory with 'X add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'X get'
3. All the X nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

*Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:* 

*Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):*

There is a list of existing brainstormed names you can pull from in the Sheet of IPFS-related Names and the Kubo/go-ipfs name proposals.

2. Comment on name proposals

Add any comments as to why you think a given name proposal is or isn't a good idea.

3. “thumbs up“ 👍 vote for names you'd be in favor of the new npm package using

Names that get a broad range of community endorsement will be more favored in the decision-making process.

Note: per #470, we're not using the "upvote" functionality.

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Per ipfs/helia#3, we announced the vote during IPFS Camp 2022.

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From @SgtPooki on how to summarize the current votes:

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TODO: below does not count 👍 and ♥️

Run in the console in your browser terminal on this page:

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[momack2]

Proposed name:

Aster / Astr

Reason it’s great: type of flower, but also latin for star and reads "a str" in short form

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'aster add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'aster get'
3. All the aster nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances): Aster the flower / star burst that also kinda looks like an aster

[SgtPooki]

i'm running out of credits @darobin but:

https://labs.openai.com/s/FEFkaEAdop3eGQIhZUSp8z3i

https://labs.openai.com/s/91BYyBr4vIfdnkzqGn6fh9te

https://labs.openai.com/s/VgmgtVdvIDIZCYJHqyDENkii

[SgtPooki]

do we have any research into SEO or other concerns? It looks like Aster is one of the top3 voted items

[achingbrain]

One concern is that the name is taken by a dormant module on npm so there's small but non-zero chance we won't be able to use it.

[achingbrain]

Similar logo idea to kafo - space, flowers, js/ipfs colours, etc

[lemanschik]

nice logo ideas for my new graphics layer AsteriskGL *GL a new layer for the web to superseed WEBGL with a more low level implementation based on the wayland protocol concepts.

[momack2]

Proposed name:

Estrela / Estrella

Reason it’s great: Spanish / Portuguese for Star - sounds beautiful and good SEO

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. You can fetch a file with 'estrela get'
2. estrela nodes are tuned to run in browser contexts

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• May be hard to remember if 1 or 2 "L"s

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

• Stars!

[xylanreeves]

Too long

[whizzzkid]

Proposed name:

KubES / Kubes

Reason it’s great: Brings parity with Kubo (Kube + GO), (Kube + ES = KubES). Since this is supposed to be modular and based on ES Modules, it could be kubes?

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. You can initialize a new client by const kubes = new Kubes()
2. You can make a new directory as await kubes.mkdir('foo')

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• Pretty straightforward, but it's spelled cubes with a k.

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

• fits in with the IPFS themes of hexagonal cube representation.

[alanshaw]

Proposed name:

Jumbo

Reason it’s great:

Kubo and Jumbo sounds like a crime fighting duo.

It speaks to their interoperability.

Jumbo is fast like a jet aeroplane.

Jumbo is the biggest and best IPFS implementation.

JavaScript and Jumbo is good alliteration.

It is a nice short name.

Jumbo is an abandoned project on npm and we can have it.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'jumbo add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'jumbo get'
3. All the jumbo nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances): A jumbo jet ✈️

[tinytb]

I like this, although it would be a somewhat ironic name, since one of the goals is for the package to be smaller than js-ipfs 😄

I saw that the npm project is abandoned, but how does that mean we can have it?

[achingbrain]

I agree - "Jumbo" = "big" in my mind and that's a hard sell for a js library..

[whizzzkid]

I don't want to be bogged down by a Jumbo JS lib.

[momack2]

Wait, is old "js-ipfs" not going to be renamed? It could be Jumbo!

[BigLep]

Wait, is old "js-ipfs" not going to be renamed? It could be Jumbo!

Correct. We're currently not planning to rename the current js-ipfs given it being on a deprecation path in early 2023, and the rename effort not seeming worth the ROI.

I added a comment here.

[p-shahi]

Proposed name:

Ito 🧵

Reason it’s great:

1. Succinct name (just three letters)
   a. easy to remember
   b. easy to pronounce
   b. importantly really easy to type
2. Name meaning complements project goals:
   a. means thread/string in Japanese
   b. lightweight but strong when woven together (weaving the Web together 🕸️)
3. Hidden reference:
   a. Although, the Kubo name wasn't inspired by the movie Kubo and the Two Strings, that doesn't mean we can't "tie" the projects together by making IPFS in JS one of the strings :)
4. Rhymes with existing IPFS project names
   a. Kubo, Ito, Iroh

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with ito add -r foo
2. You can fetch a file with ito get
3. All the ito nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• An npm package with this name exists but is not widely used: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ito (might be able to request author to give us this package name)
• No existing tech products use this name so it will help with SEO

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):
🧵 emoji
Any thread, yarn, string, motif has a lot of possibilities

[tinytb]

One minor issue is that I and l look similar, so at first glance, it might not be clear if the name is lto or Ito (depending on how we capitalize it).

[momack2]

Also kinda sounds like Iroh - which will make it confusing with other IPFS impls.

[momack2]

BUT "-ito" is also the spanish ending for "little" --> gato = gat"-ito" = gatito (little cat) -- which is super cute

[bertrandfalguiere]

If we go with Ito, then Gatito should be the name of the GATeway module of ITO!

[xylanreeves]

" L l I i "

little complication here

[leoherzog]

Kafo ☕

Reason it’s great:

• Kubo is "cube" in Esperanto — Kafo is "coffee" in Esperanto, an ode to the naming origins of Java/Javascript
• "Kubo" and "Kafo" are distinctive but related sounds
• It has satisfying mouth feel. Try saying it out loud. Feels good, right?

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with kafo add -r foo
2. You can fetch a file with kafo get
3. All the kafo nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

A KAFO can also stand for a "Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis", a prosthetic device. I don't see much SEO overlap with us there.

[l-monninger]

Cafe/Coffee/Kafo also share similar consonance and assonance in many languages--or can be considered loanwords entirely. So, the familiarity should be pretty international.

[SgtPooki]

IDK about the foresight of "Knee Ankle Foot Orthosis" and new JS ipfs implementation.. if we don't take regular breaks, it's possible you could eventually require prosthetics (blood pooling, diabetes from too many snacks, etc.). So if you think about it, this name has a tertiary effect of potentially increasing health awareness.

[achingbrain]

The JavaScript/Java/Coffee/Software developer/productivity juice relation is pretty well-trodden at this point, so it might be nice to lean into something else for the visuals.

I adapted the weird ai space hand graphic from Lofa below as I like the strong geometric shapes which reference the IPFS logo nicely:

It's got a nod to the space theme, a nice looking brush script kappa character, some of the Official JavaScript Yellow and a bit of IPFS teal/jade gradient.

[bertrandfalguiere]

What about this variant with extra lines to better suggest the chopped cube?

(As you can see, I have amazing digital drawing skills 😎, but I would tolerate if someone actually drew straight lines and move the upper left planet a bit to the north...)

[bertrandfalguiere]

(Or maybe not, as it can be saturn-like)

[taoshengshi]

Ginkgo

Reason it’s great:

• Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as ginkgo or also known as the maidenhair tree, is a species of tree native to China. It is the last living species in the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago.
• gingko (/ˈɡɪŋkoʊ, ˈɡɪŋkɡoʊ/ GINK-oh, -⁠goh), easy to remember, easy to read
• A Chinese name is needed to drive this huge market

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with ginkgo add -r foo
2. You can fetch a file with ginkgo get
3. All the ginkgo nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the ginkgo nodes

[SgtPooki]

Proposed name:

Lófa / Lofa

Reason it’s great:

1. lófa is "palm" (as in hand) in Icelandic, which is phonetically similar to the first part of the current placeholder name "pomegranate"
2. It's not related to kubo, except that you could also have ipfs in the palm of your hand with lofa. No matter how much I like "Kofa", we don't want to tie the js and go implementations together again!
3. You can use it in the palm of your hand when you run it on mobile
4. It's 4 letters, just like kubo and iroh.
5. Our opposable thumbs are great, and the palm of our hand connects it to the rest of our fingers. Lófa will connect the rest of IPFS to JS.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'lofa add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'lofa get'
3. All the lofa nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• Google translate pointed me to lófa, but Wikipedia says it's lófi and lófa is another term for 'lofi'
  • https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%C3%B3fi
• It's easy to say ("Laova" I think)
  • see https://www.worldnomads.com/explore/northern-europe/iceland/icelandic-pronunciation-guide
    • L as in Love
    • ó as ao in boat
    • f in the middle of a word changes to a v
    • a as in car
  • https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=is&text=palm%0A&op=translate has audio clip too
    • Pronunciation from google on the translate page sounds to me like: "Yeofa"

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

From https://labs.openai.com/e/gFldAhImifOQIoZoJVFv3lKB/DPHIEdVPpZ8r6QG9PKNLsbml. Imagine the text says Lófa underneath

[SgtPooki]

P.s. To see the votes:

Run in the console in your browser terminal on this page:

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VM6707:9 Kafo ☕  Reason it’s great: 10
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  Jumbo 8
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  Aster / Astr 7
VM6707:9 Per State of IPFS in JS (blog post) and ipfs/pomegranate#3, we're seeking a name for a new implementation of IPFS in JavaScript.  Things you can do: 5
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  Ito 🧵 4
VM6707:9 IPJS:  Reason it’s great: 3
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  Estrela / Estrella 2
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  Lófa / Lofa 2
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  jcub 2
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  KubES / Kubes 1
VM6707:9 Ginkgo  Reason it’s great: 1
VM6707:9 Nala / Nahla  Reason it’s great: 1
VM6707:9 Proposed name:  fstar / feather star 1

[p-shahi]

I need a way to pump up votes for Ito 🤣

[BigLep]

I like the idea, but am not as much of a fan of the English connotation of "loafer/loafing" that stands out when I first hear the word. I proposed leaning into "palm" directly: #495 (comment)

[SgtPooki]

I like the idea, but am not as much of a fan of the English connotation of "loafer/loafing" that stands out when I first hear the word. I proposed leaning into "palm" directly: #495 (comment)

With lofa, you could be comfortable while working with our implementation ;)

I dig your analogy additions in the palm thread

[lidel]

@SgtPooki you need to include 👍 and ❤️ in vote count, or the results will be invalid.

[mrodriguez3313]

Nala / Nahla

Reason it’s great:

• I think it reads pretty good, bc it is just 4 letters
• Name of a loveable character in Lion King. Nala was a right minded, kind, and loyal leader of the pride
• Nala spells Alan backwards. Whom we know was very influential to js-ipfs. Peep the contributions.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'nala add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'nala get'
3. All the nala nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• There are many respectable people with the name Nahla/Nala and in some African languages it can mean "Queen", "lion", or "Successful Women" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahla_(name)
• Name of a disney character, idk if that's good or bad for SEO
• The alternate spelling can be hard to remember

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

• a lion
• some symbol of royalty
  

[SgtPooki]

Proposed name:

fstar / feather star

Reason it’s great:

• fs-tar seems relevant to the type of work we're doing
• f-star sounds cool
• Feather stars are a type of crinoid that are without stalks
  • Crinoids who are missing arms might have shed them intentionally. Not only can they grow and lose arms at will, but they also have the mind-boggling ability to detach themselves from their own stalks and crawl away unaffected.
  • This description of crinoids resonated with me and seems to align pretty well with what this rename is doing.
    • detaching from our stalk (kubo & js-ipfs)
    • grow and lose arms at will: modularizing ipfs in JS as described in https://blog.ipfs.tech/state-of-ipfs-in-js/
• It aligns with the persistent flower naming themes

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'fstar add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'fstar get'
3. All the fstar nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/fstar is 404
• internet searching for "fstar" results in a few results, either companies named "f-star" or the "f*" language.

Concerns:

• the name fstar could confuse exactly what this implementation of IPFS does. (fs-tar, does it do tarring of files?)

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

https://labs.openai.com/s/qIR2HfYRMUor2labdaisgvVw	https://labs.openai.com/s/s8knlPOl5oPVn1juB7QaUU0I

[SgtPooki]

https://labs.openai.com/s/n4zeaC0Bl1Xmjr4MSqtPQNv7 is a pretty cool one too

[SgtPooki]

my favorite, and calling it done: https://labs.openai.com/s/Ih6UVDviULeuvhMkyc5y0FUz

[SgtPooki]

I lied.. https://labs.openai.com/s/TPcHYMrtX2P2ADimiiXWhEsK

[l-monninger]

Proposed name:

jcub

Reason it’s great:

• Simple construction J(avaScript) + cub(e).
• Pronounce as Jacob.
• SEO does not have many contenders. JCU, Brisbane being the most significant.
• I personally really like kafo, so I suggest this primarily as another way to break away from the kubo basis.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'jcub add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'jcub get'
3. All the jcub nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• Biblical reference may be a bit alienating to some.
• Jacob needs to update the jcub version running on our network.

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

• It's a stretch, but you could think of a Jacob's Ladder--unfolding IPFS into new ecosystems. A Jacob's Ladder inside a cube might work as a logo, or might be too busy. Or, perhaps, you could do a Jacob's Ladder of cubes instead of tiles.

[l-monninger]

Yeah, agreed. That was my primary, though latent, concern with this name too.

[SgtPooki]

what is the religious reference? The fact that someone in the bible is named Jacob or is there something else I'm missing.

[bertrandfalguiere]

More specifically Jacob's Ladder used in the candidate logo

[bertrandfalguiere]

I wrote "name or logo" to express my opinion generally for any project, but in this instance I was thinking of the logo.

[achingbrain]

The j makes me think of that period in time when people used to add j to a name to show it was the Java version of something - JDebug, BlueJ, IntelliJ, JMeter, JUnit, etc - it's slightly retro-sounding to my ear.

[Assassin-1234]

IPJS:

Reason it’s great:

• represents IPFS and JS as a whole

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• perfect SEO results, 2 valid entries on IPJS google search that relate to development
• facebook groups named IPJS for some reason lol

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

[momack2]

Right now, IPJS isn't a single implementation, but a wider effort around IPFS in Javascript (that would transcend this particular implementation), so this would be confusing (and also have the same confusing implication there could only be a single "official" IPFS implementation in JavaScript (wrong)

[Assassin-1234]

ah, makes sense

[BigLep]

Proposed name:

Palm

Reason it’s great:
Similar reasons to lofa without the "loafer" connotations.

1. You could have ipfs in the palm of your hand, especially when you run it on mobile
2. Our opposable thumbs are great, and the palm of our hand connects it to the rest of our fingers. Palm will connect the rest of IPFS to JS.
3. Other IPFS implementations may take you to space, but palm takes you to the beach. Let's be honest, where would you rather be? In frigid temperatures at best gagging on poisonous gasses OR basking in the sun with your feet up at the beach?

• Remote islands can still feel other-planetary
• There's no better place to take in the stars than from an island (ideally with a tall mountain)

4. There's much more from the "palm tree" metaphor that can mine from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecaceae. One of the standout features of palm trees is how "trim" they are. Trim/lightweight is part of what we're going for with this implementation.
5. Easy emojis options: 🌴🏝️🫳🫴🤲
6. It's not related to kubo
7. It's 4 letters, like kubo and iroh, but even easier to say at one syllable.
8. (easter egg) Is phonetically similar to the first part of the current placeholder name "pomegranate"

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'palm add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'palm get'
3. All the palm nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:
LIkely has conflicts. I haven't looked at this though.

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

[devingfx]

Palm is a tech company already...

[leoherzog]

RIP. #webos20090606

[xylanreeves]

Proposed name:

XU 🌤️

Reason it’s great:

• Easy to remember, easy to type ✅
• SEO ✅
• Origin: Chinese
• Meaning: brilliant rising sun 🌞
• Sunlight's interplanetary and fast AF.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

Add a directory with 'xu add -r foo'
You can fetch a file with 'xu get'
All the xu nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

• Sun / cube something of that sort

[tabcat]

Proposed name:

jimbo 🐿️

Reason it’s great:

• fun. sounds like jumbo without the bigness.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'jimbo add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'jimbo get'
3. All the jimbo nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

Should be fine to spell from hearing most of the time. Small chance to be confused with 'gym bow' when heard.

Pretty empty search results; mostly related to the animated series Jimmy Neutron and the feature film Boss Baby.

NPM package name is taken ☹️ Maintainer may be open to transferring it.

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

the chipmunk:

• comes in a small package
• stores caches (of nuts) that are sometimes lost (gc'd)
• is not taken seriously (like javascript); no offense to chipmunks 🙏

[achingbrain]

helia 🌞 🌳

Reason it’s great:

Helia is the latin spelling of Ἡλιη (Helie or hee-lee phonetically, emphasis on the first syllable), in Greek mythology one of the Heliades - the daughters of the sun god Helios. When their brother Phaethon died trying to drive the sun chariot across the sky, their tears of mourning fell to earth as amber, which is yellow (sort of), and so is JavaScript. They were then turned into poplar trees and, well, JavaScript is quite popular.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'helia add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'helia get'
3. All the helia nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

Nothing tech related, a startup that was acquired a couple of years ago.

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

• The sun
• Trees
• Lower case Η is η which is a fun letter

[devingfx]

Proposed name:

sfero / sphere

Reason it’s great:

• sfero is "sphere" in Esperanto, as kubo is "cube", to stay in volumes semantics. (maybe the python version will be pyramid ? :P )
• some similitudes to "SF Hero" because Interplanetary is still SF :)

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'sf add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'sf get'
3. All the sfero nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• simple to type, can be "namespaced" with sf that is FS inverted
• easy to pronouce

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

[achingbrain]

Sfero is a high performing modular RFID as EAS solution for apparel? AKA those little plastic security tags you get on clothes in shops:

https://checkpointsystems.com/uk/rfid-solutions/sfero/

[achingbrain]

@devingfx I think I'm missing the reference - what is SF Hero?

[lidel]

It fits nice next to Kubo, and there is potential for Lego-like (or pixel-art) mascot, where sphere is a bit blocky:

[devingfx]

I quite like the blocky one ! 😄

@devingfx I think I'm missing the reference - what is SF Hero?

SF = Science Fiction

[whizzzkid]

Proposed name:

Vahan | वाहन

Reason it’s great:
Vahan (Pronounced as Vaa-Hun) is the Hindi word for "vehicle". Since JS-IPFS deals with Inter Planetary transports, what better way to describe the lib. "Transport" translates to "Pari-Vahan | परिवाहन" but vahan is what drives that :P.

As an added bonus, a car is a vahan, a format we support. The idea has been shamelessly borrowed from how Bacalhau did their naming (cod in portugese)

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'vahan add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'vahan get'
3. All the vahan nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

• vahan.nic.in is the vehicle registration website from Indian Govt.

Logo/mascot ideas (optional, but increases your chances):

[devingfx]

I'm not a huge fan of localized names! Why relate a JS impl. to Hindi? to Spanish? to Japanese? to ....
Esperanto is neutral ! 😜
https://glosbe.com/en/eo/vehicle

[lemanschik]

nice name but ipfs does not deal with transports in fact it deals with files and experiments with transports.

[RebekkalPangras]

Proposed name:

Pomo

Reason it’s great:
The pronunciation rhymes with Kubo( Go implementation). Easy to pronounce and remember.

How it reads in multiple sentences:

1. Add a directory with 'pomo add -r foo'
2. You can fetch a file with 'pomo get'
3. All the pomo nodes are having trouble exchanging data with the kubo nodes

Callouts concerning recognition, pronunciation, spelling, length, and/or SEO:

There is an app for bitcoin mining named POMO(Uppercase letters)

[tinytb]

Thanks for the suggestion! I don't think Pomo rhymes with Kubo though :)

[tinytb]

Update: After a runoff poll, Helia was selected. 🎉