BTCRetailX was a placeholder name until we came up with something better. It was a mouthful and got complaints all the time.
So we knew we would be rebranding at some point as well as redesigning the GUI. So my bitcoin buddy (a graphic design artist among other talents) from Charlotte, Jacob Parrish, actually came up with Alpaca when we were bantering about animal names for a point of sale system - many animals were already taken. I had to think a bit about it and realized that in an Alpaca, we have a hard working pack animal, and then we came up with the graphic image, and the name and the image took off.
So we knew we would be rebranding at some point as well as redesigning the GUI. So my bitcoin buddy (a graphic design artist among other talents) from Charlotte, Jacob Parrish, actually came up with Alpaca when we were bantering about animal names for a point of sale system - many animals were already taken. I had to think a bit about it and realized that in an Alpaca, we have a hard working pack animal, and then we came up with the graphic image, and the name and the image took off.