Who coined the word "cryptocurrency" ...

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I don't  think the bitcoin is the first currency.. and also bitcoin is differs from cryptocurrency.. these are not the same..i am not damm sure..

I don't think that a pigeon is dove, let alone a bird, reasons why soon to be released in my dissertation in obtaining my 8th PHD ... or is it my 9th, for i am not damm sure.

Why do you need to know? I think it might be a little bit late to register a trademark on the word, because it is public domain now.  Yes, you might get some brag rights from this, but that is about it. 

Imagine going through all that trouble and finding out that you were not the first person to use the word. I once thought I was the first person using a specific word, until I saw it mentioned in a very old youtube video. <You feel like a real jackass, when you realize this for the first time> 

I will create a t-shirt with the words, "I created Cryptocurrencies" 

Taking Stealing your lead, I, too, will create a t-shirt with the words, "I is Investard!"

[wxxyrqa]

It's a bit tricky question. But maybe someone was thinking about corruption and crypto word come into his mind. And he modifies it to cryptocurrency   

You got a rather ridiculous opinion. But if you take into account the fact that many officials use cryptocurrency to get bribes, we can assume that there is something in common between the words cryptocurrency and Corruption.

[BitcoinFX]

An earlier reference to the word "cryptocurrency" is cited in the OED notes here:
- https://oed.com/view/Entry/79224404

" 2009   @hxn 23 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive)    This is really interesting: bitcoin, the p2p cryptocurrency. "

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Courtesy of this thread and the OED 'Satoshi' addition ...

Satoshi in Oxford English Dictionary
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5193073.0

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First was bitcoin
Second was cryptocurreny

Now they listed "satoshi" and defined it as:

a satoshi is the smallest monetary unit in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, and is named after Satoshi Nakamoto, the—probably pseudonymous—developer(s) of Bitcoin.

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Fascinating to find an earlier iteration of the word "cryptocurrency" being cited in the OED notes ...

" 2009   @hxn 23 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive)    This is really interesting: bitcoin, the p2p cryptocurrency. "

See thread: Re: Who coined the word "cryptocurrency" ...
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5155348.0

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Am pretty sure it was Satoshi himself. There's a passage in Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper where it's proposed in an exchange with that Finnish fella who helped him out with bitcoin.org at the start. I'll dig around.

Edit - It was an unknown stranger.


'While satoshi never discussed anything person in these emails, he would banter with Martti about little things.

In one email Satoshi pointed to a recent exchange on the Bitcoin email list in which a user referred to Bitcoin as a "cryptocurrency" referring to the cryptographic functions that made it run.

"Maybe it's a word we should use when describing Bitcoin. Do you like it?" Satoshi asked.

"It sounds good," Martti replied. "A peer to peer cryptocurrency could be the slogan."  '

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No reference to "cryptocurrency" ...

HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH
- https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm

Stefan Brands, Untraceable Off-Line Cash in Wallets with Observers, Advances in Cryptology CRYPTO '93, Springer-Verlag, pp. 302-318
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F3-540-48329-2_26.pdf

David Chaum, Achieving Electronic Privacy, Scientific American (August 1992), 96-101.
- https://www.chaum.com/publications/ScientificAmerican-AEP.pdf

David Chaum, Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to make Big Brother Obsolete, ACM 28 no. 10 (Oct 1985), 1030-1044.
- https://www.cs.ru.nl/~jhh/pub/secsem/chaum1985bigbrother.pdf

David Chaum, Amos Fiat, and Moni Naor, Untraceable Electronic Cash, Advances in Cryptology CRYPTO '88, Springer-Verlag, pp. 319-327.
- http://blog.koehntopp.de/uploads/chaum_fiat_naor_ecash.pdf

David Chaum and Torben Pedersen, Transferred Cash Grows in Size, Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT '92, Springer-Verlag, pp. 390-407.
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F3-540-47555-9_32.pdf

David Chaum and Torben Pedersen, Wallet Databases with Observers, Advances in Cryptology CRYPTO '92, Springer-Verlag, pp. 89-105.
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F3-540-48071-4_7.pdf

Tony Eng and Tatsuaki Okamoto, Single-Term Divisible Electronic Coins, Advances in Cryptology EUROCRYPT '94, Springer-Verlag, pp. 311-323.
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/BFb0053446 - No reference in Abstract - Undetermined.

Niels Ferguson, Extensions of Single-term Coins, Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO '93, Springer-Verlag, pp. 292-301.
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48329-2_25 - No reference in Abstract - Undetermined.

Niels Ferguson, Single Term Off-Line Coins, Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT '93, Springer-Verlag, pp. 318-328.
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-48285-7_28 - No reference in Abstract - Undetermined.

Alfred J. Menezes, Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1993.
- http://www.cs.nthu.edu.tw/~cchen/CS4351/jurisic.pdf

Tatsuaki Okamoto, An Efficient Divisible Electronic Cash Scheme, Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO '95, Springer-Verlag, pp. 438-451.
- https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F3-540-44750-4_35.pdf

Tatsuaki Okamoto and Kazuo Ohta, Universal Electronic Cash, Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO '91, Springer-Verlag, pp. 324-337.
- ?? - Undetermined.

Sebastiaan von Solms and David Naccache, On Blind Signatures and Perfect Crimes, Computers & Security 11 (1992), 581-583.
- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/On-blind-signatures-and-perfect-crimes-Solms-Naccache/67bb82e6981239270d644e60e8f868b4f0752126 - No reference in Abstract - Undetermined.

Markus Stadler, Jean-Marc Piveteau, and Jan Camenisch, Fair Blind Signatures, Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT '95, Springer-Verlag, pp. 209-219.
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-49264-X_17 - No reference in Abstract - Undetermined.

Further ...

Unenumerated: Bit gold
- https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html - Note only reference in later comments ??

cryptocurrency - Google Trends
- https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=cryptocurrency

hashcash.org - 2009
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090707030656/http://www.hashcash.org/docs/hashcash.txt

Zooko's Hack Log
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090426214618/http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html#%5B%5BDecentralized%20Money%5D%5D

Bitcoin on sourceforge.net

2009

- https://web.archive.org/web/20091129231620/http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/

April 2010

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100414195759/http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/

bitcoin.org

2009 ... nope ...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20090131115053/http://bitcoin.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090303195936/http://bitcoin.org/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090823095446/http://www.bitcoin.org/

Jan 2010 ...

"Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency" <<<<< does pre-date my OP post !!!

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100106082749/http://www.bitcoin.org/

??

A link to the tweet, anyone ?

- https://twitter.com/hxn

Wondering if hxn remembers reading it before he wrote it ?

 

[oleg681010]

I think it doesn't matter who invented it, the main who began to actively use

[BitcoinFX]

I think it doesn't matter who invented it, the main who began to actively use

- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10459115/Australian-man-invented-the-selfie-after-drunken-night-out.html

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I think it doesn't matter who invented it, the main who began to actively use

- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10459115/Australian-man-invented-the-selfie-after-drunken-night-out.html

What the fuck is in the water in Australia?

https://www.thomasnet.com/articles/daily-bite/don-t-just-re-invent-the-wheel-patent-it/

[Wintersoldier]

I think the "cryptocurrency" comes in use with very deep thinking as the name itself has meaning like Crypto=Secret and Currency=Legal tender/Money which means Secret+Money=Cryptocurrency and the term was coined intelligently.

It is much alike of Crypto means encrypted, safe and secured and currency simply means money. Basically craig will do everything just to prove that he is a big personality in cryptospace. But knowing who coined the word crypto for me, is almost the entire cryptocommunity. Once the cryptocurrencies have been set out, its creator who first said crypto could be the one who coined it and for me, that is satoshi. Let us not be deceived by all means that some people are using. we need to be knowledgeable enough and filter information first.

[Mandoy]

I guess you were right I have searched the web for whoever coined the term cryptocurrency and I just cant find it. Well congratulations since you are the one responsible as the first person who use the word cryptocurrency. Well I guess you will soon expect that your username here will be placed on the dictiorary of bitcoin.

Anyway, Craig Wright has already been famous for faking documents and it is not the first time he made it. Everytime he made such things to prove he is satoshi he degrades himself and making a fool out of himself.