Francs

WTF is Francs?

I bet the first time you've visited PoWTF you wondered what francs stands for.

Franc is a former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted in 1999.

Read more on Wikipedia

But even after reading this you may still wonder how Franc is connected to a project that was built on the ETH Blockchain Smart-Contract Platform

Well, the real answer to this is in that blog post from Vitalik Buterin the co-founder of Ethereum

At what circumstances that strange name was coined by the founder?

Well, at the time that this project was started it was a WTF moment in the cryptocurrency market and it's kinda ongoing and it was April 1. You know the rest :)