> blockchain was not defined in Nakamoto's work However the whitepaper does use the phrase "chain of blocks". https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.o

> blockchain was not defined in Nakamoto's work However the whitepaper does use the phrase "chain of blocks". https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf 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.