#Monero Fun fact
Many people know that Monero means “money” in Esperanto, but what is the plural form?
It is Moneroj.
BitMonero was the original name of the project when it was launched in April 2014 based on the CryptoNote protocol.
It was proposed in 2014 by a user on the Bitcointalk forum with the pseudonym “thankful_for_today.”
He chose the “Monero” part for the reason I mentioned earlier: it means “money” in Esperanto.
The community didn't like the prefix “Bit” (from Bitcoin). A few days later, the project forked and was simply renamed Monero.
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