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December 30, 2013, 08:05:04 AM |
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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...
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{ Imagine a sequence of bits generated from the first decimal place of the square roots of whole integers that are irrational numbers. If the decimal falls between 0 and 5, it's considered bit 0, and if it falls between 5 and 10, it's considered bit 1. This sequence from a simple integer count of contiguous irrationals and their logical decimal expansion of the first decimal place is called the 'main irrational stream.' Our goal is to design a physical and optical computing system system that can detect when this stream starts matching a specific pattern of a given size of bits. bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166760.0 } Satoshi did use a friend class in C++ and put a comment on the code saying: "This is why people hate C++".
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December 30, 2013, 11:52:57 AM |
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Stone age?
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December 30, 2013, 11:56:38 AM |
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mining (n.)
1520s, verbal noun from mine (v.1).
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December 30, 2013, 12:00:59 PM |
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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?
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December 30, 2013, 12:11:14 PM |
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The oldest known mine on archaeological record
Mine itself is not verbal testimonial. |
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December 30, 2013, 12:16:36 PM |
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I meant "mining" in the context of bitcoin, obviously...
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{ Imagine a sequence of bits generated from the first decimal place of the square roots of whole integers that are irrational numbers. If the decimal falls between 0 and 5, it's considered bit 0, and if it falls between 5 and 10, it's considered bit 1. This sequence from a simple integer count of contiguous irrationals and their logical decimal expansion of the first decimal place is called the 'main irrational stream.' Our goal is to design a physical and optical computing system system that can detect when this stream starts matching a specific pattern of a given size of bits. bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166760.0 } Satoshi did use a friend class in C++ and put a comment on the code saying: "This is why people hate C++".
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December 30, 2013, 12:22:30 PM |
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I meant "mining" in the context of bitcoin, obviously...
Well I know the software calls it generate |
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December 30, 2013, 12:40:00 PM |
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I added it to urbandictionary  |
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December 30, 2013, 02:49:43 PM |
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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. |
If I've said anything amusing and/or informative and you're feeling generous:
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December 30, 2013, 03:04:45 PM |
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The Bitcoin client used the term generate (2010) before the term mining... http://uofr.net/~bcg/a.jpg |
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December 31, 2013, 10:59:37 PM |
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I think Bitcoin 0.3 still used the term "generate"...can't be too hard to spot the terminology change in the code!
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December 31, 2013, 11:48:52 PM |
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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. |
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