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Re:Former top official says Fed should ‘Maybe’ create ‘FedCo... by thisisit on Saturday May 05, 2018 @03:03AM (#17000738)
> What is a "blockchain"?

I am always curious, blockchain was not defined in Nakamoto's work. So, where did the word actually originate from? And what did it meant for the word's inventor.

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Re:Former top official says Fed should ‘Maybe’ create ‘FedCo... by codetrotter on Saturday May 05, 2018 @06:12AM (#17001158)
> blockchain was not defined in Nakamoto's work

However the whitepaper does use the phrase "chain of blocks". https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, page 7.

So probably the word "blockchain" came about because someone read or heard someone else say "chain of blocks" in the paper and they said "oh, so a blockchain", and thus the word was born.

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Re:Former top official says Fed should ‘Maybe’ create ‘FedCo... by geofft on Saturday May 05, 2018 @02:16PM (#17002989)
Wikipedia cites what looks like a mirror of Nakamoto's original Bitcoin source, which uses "block chain" in the comments of main.h: https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src...
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