“S” would ruin it. You don’t have a “T” on Tor’s memorable onion logo.
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Just throwing ideas to see what sticks.
I like the XOR symbol. It’s simple.
I do like the current design for safecoin, from an aesthetic point of view, but it’s impossible to draw by hand which makes it pretty bad for a currency. I think.
⊕ works though, it just needs a little more personality to make it unique.
And yes I’m jumping from a subject to another. it’s late.
Well, combining “S” with ⊕ gives a rounded swastika, which is also an ancient symbol but with too much “personality” for the current times.
i don’t know, is it that bad:
I also like that the line is orthogonal to the one on the dollar sign $.
Edit:
There’s a yin and yang feel to them.
One last for the road
or not
There, doesn’t look much like the XOR sign anymore but I like it a lot.
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The people’s anything always reminds me of socialist/communist politics. In short, a select few pretending to do stuff him the name of others.
Imo, the name should reflect the technology, not the idealism behind it.
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Root “SAFE”. Branches “coin” “internet” “browser” “app”. If it works don’t fix it. 
Not proven to work yet. 100’s of Millions need convincing, not a couple of thousand forum members.
Bingo! I agree with @Traktion to use it in branding wont work. Although a targeted marketing campaign in China “The Peoples Network” could bring some wanted (and unwanted) attention.
People are focusing on this because there is nothing to show yet, no actual product. It is pent-up energy, but not particularly useful
“Network” is a universal, well recognized term for “connecting” and is easily translated to most languages and is synonymous with computers in the western world. One word “network” says so much. I like what naturally ooozed from David lips.
“Secured Data on a Secured Network” What else is there to say? No other words are necessary. No more time needs to be spent explaining, describing, convincing, selling, motivating.
Please tell me what “Secured Data on a Secured Network” DOESNT SAY about “Project SAFE”
By the way…
XOR is pronounced “zor”.
So Safecoin might colloquially become known as Zorbucks (after Sawbucks, AKA US dollars), especially if ⊕ came to be used as the currency symbol.
And as someone once said: In Hoc Signo Vinces… (tr: “in this sign, thou shalt conquer”).
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More often it’s [eks-awr] =x-or. See XOR Definition & Usage Examples | Dictionary.com and press the sound.
It’s a variation on OR… X-OR follows.
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Ok,
Secure access for everyone to the networked commons.
or
Secure access for everyone to the networked digital commons.
or
Secure access for everyone to the digital commons.
or
Digital commons secure access.
Or
Digital commons secure access for everyone.
OR
Digital commons universal secure access.
Maybe its ultimately SAFE BIT. Or SB, or SAFE BITS. Are these bits SAFE? Yes or no? Are the bits SAFE? These are SAFE bits… All of that is out of the question because those bits are SAFE bits. …no because those were SAFE bits or SAFE binaries, as if it were a file format or file extension. *.safe *.SAFE
You are correct, that the pronunciation given in dictionaries is usually eks-awr. But at least one dictionary (Merriam Webster)* lists zor as a second pronunciation.
I’ll cite Merriam-Webster in future if anyone disputes the acceptibility of “zor”.
Since eks-awr is inconsistent with customary English usage for words beginning with x, then zor isn’t likely to go away any time soon.
- You have to Google for “Merriam Webster XOR” for it to come up. A direct link such as I tried to give here directs you to a paywall.
I’m not a fan of marketing; branding; and design industries, for so often those wrestle their way to becoming more important than the substance… naturally in moderation they can be useful; so, there’s a balance to be struck.
I don’t understand the intent entirely. Does the internet have a visual identity?
If the interest is in marketing the network, then branding makes sense to a point but that should focus on the ideas and less on limiting identity. So, ideas of Privacy; Security; and Freedom, are powerful and well understood - explaining the need for those, would likely be less effective that allowing those who seek them the opportunity to find what SAFE can do.
I wonder there’s less need to have one visual branding - only marketing people like brands and they tend to be casual with the truth and in it for themselves. Many ways of communicating the ideas might be a better route to something useful, than seeking out one traditional design ‘branding’ that will never satisfy everyone.
All that said, there’s no harm in having a strong logo; strapline; memes, etc that can be put to use where people are communicating what SAFE is.
Aren’t you smart – you’ve found a word that is only available in the Merriam-Webster
Unabridged Dictionary.
For a subscriber access only dictionary, I’m not surprised they have to make up curiousities to humour their paid subscribers ;p
and I see you’ve updated to an indirect link that voices X-OR… but I see now the zor too.
You see this, you see that. ;-p I have updated with instructions for avoiding the paywall.
You can’t cite a dictionary to support your argument, then dismiss it as “a curiosity” when I cite another dictionary to support mine. 
What if its a file extension like *.safe or safe file
like a zip file? I like it because some how its so atomistic and at this point mothers milk that even if I can’t tell icon from os from web from internet and even if I’ve only delt with icons and never typed in a file extension some how its called a file, or file ext is a concept Ive heard, but file tells me its a wrapper, organizer, container of some sort and I might have the sense somehow that its low level or elemental and basic or prior, that its like DNA or has some relation or heridity. Those are SAFE bits…
XOR…Exclusive OR … and now I see the z but I’m tired 
The problem with introducing something that’s so different than anything on the market is there is no parallel to make during introduction. P&G would intro a “better laundry soap” - McDonalds a “bigger cheesburger” Apple “thinner. faster. lighter laptop” The harm in not having a strong marketing / branding is that there would be no continuity across all the related industries where SAFE fits and can be adopted. The message needs to be constant, concise and penetrating.
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