While we were brainstorming the High Boy thinking about everything from the interface to the features and design a question popped up:
"What about a mascot?!"

At first, we hadn’t even thought about it, but then the idea hit us:
If High Boy were an animal, what would it be?

And the answer came instantly: an octopus! 🐙

But why an octopus?
Simple: it has multiple tentacles, each one doing something different just like the High Boy’s multi-functionality.
So it was settled: the octopus would be our adventure partner!

Ok, but... what about the name?

After throwing around a bunch of crazy ideas, we finally landed on Octobit  or just Bit, for the close friends.

(By the way, there’s a hidden pun in there: an octopus has 8 tentacles, and 8 bits make 1 byte. Get it? 😎)

After that, came the hardest part: bringing our little buddy to life with a design.

There were a lot of attempts, a lot of different versions as you can see! until we finally landed on the current look.

Of course, Bit might still evolve over time, but for now, he’s just the way we imagined:

a buddy to tag along on our hacking journey, always ready to lend a helping tentacle.