Someone asked this in the chat today and I thought it was a fun one, so I’m sharing the answer here as well:
One of the great mysteries of life! Actually there is no official name origin story, at least none that I am aware of.
At one point it reflected our three main “products” (at the time) – ThreeFold Grid, ThreeFold Token, & 3Bot. And our “three layered” approach.
Three is always coming back, though:
Our core values – Equality, Sovereignty, and Sustainability.
ThreeFold offers decentralized storage, compute, and network. Three again!
And the ThreeFold Law states that any good you do will return to you threefold in this lifetime.