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Title: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: remotemass on December 30, 2013, 08:05:04 AM In his whitepaper Satoshi says: "The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation".
And in May 2009 "Cave Game" was renamed to "Minecraft" after a suggestion by RinkuHero from The Independant Games Wiki on an IRC with its creator. I was wondering when was the term "mining" first used... Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: bitpop on December 30, 2013, 11:52:57 AM Stone age?
Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: kostja on December 30, 2013, 11:56:38 AM mining (n.)
1520s, verbal noun from mine (v.1). Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: e521 on December 30, 2013, 12:00:59 PM From wikipedia:
The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Do ypu think dinosaurs mined as well? Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: kostja on December 30, 2013, 12:11:14 PM The oldest known mine on archaeological record Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: remotemass on December 30, 2013, 12:16:36 PM I meant "mining" in the context of bitcoin, obviously...
Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: bitpop on December 30, 2013, 12:22:30 PM I meant "mining" in the context of bitcoin, obviously... Well I know the software calls it generate Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: kostja on December 30, 2013, 12:40:00 PM I added it to urbandictionary :)
Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: Nancarrow on December 30, 2013, 02:49:43 PM I meant "mining" in the context of bitcoin, obviously... Then you answered yourself. It was first used by Satoshi in his whitepaper (unless of course it was used earlier, by him or others, in those newsgroup postings). Strictly speaking he said it was 'addition to the supply' that was 'analogous to mining', but objecting on those grounds seems to me to be semantic hair-splitting. Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: bg002h on December 30, 2013, 03:04:45 PM The Bitcoin client used the term generate (2010) before the term mining...
http://uofr.net/~bcg/a.jpg Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: kostja on December 30, 2013, 03:07:41 PM http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mining
Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: cr1776 on December 31, 2013, 08:51:00 PM Hi,
Back to your real question: It was used here on June 7 2010: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=169.0 It was used as an analogy on June 1, 2010 here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=98.msg1318#msg1318 and Feb 18, 2010: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57.msg398#msg398 It may have been earlier on the dev list etc, but no time to look now. Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: bg002h on December 31, 2013, 10:59:37 PM I think Bitcoin 0.3 still used the term "generate"...can't be too hard to spot the terminology change in the code!
Title: Re: When was "mining" term first used? Post by: cr1776 on December 31, 2013, 11:48:52 PM I think Bitcoin 0.3 still used the term "generate"...can't be too hard to spot the terminology change in the code! Just FYI. In 4.0 it is "mining". In 3.21 there is no "mining" or "mine" which was released in April 2011 (http://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.3.21). So it took a while for the bitcoin software to catch up to the terminology that was being used elsewhere since you can see it used here in 2010. I didn't look at the dev list either yet. NYE and all. |