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Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, Chuckles.

• amjnsx 3y ago
  It's important to point out that the words "cryptocurrency" and "blockchain" aren't mentioned once in the Bitcoin whitepaper.
  • pjc50 3y ago
    The phrases "chain of blocks" and "electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof" do appear, though. The shorter coinages came later. (Hilariously the first google hit did not work, so I went to the second https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-national-training-seminar/2018/Emerging_Tech_Bitcoin_Crypto.pdf https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual... - look who's hosting that)