Its placeholder name was originally "libsatoshi", but I was worried that would cause confusion between this project and bitcoin core.

I spent the past few days thinking of names. Mako came to mind because I had recently been playing through the original FF7 (maybe the first time in ~10 years). It's short, memorable, looks cool. It checked all the boxes. On top of that, pretty much every name involving the words "btc", "coin", etc. is already taken when it comes to bitcoin projects.

That said, apparently there is a wayland notifier also named "mako", so I may have to think up a different name here. =/