Topic: Do you call it the block chain or blockchain (Read 4981 times)
I only call the Bitcoin version "Blockchain" but call an altcoin a "blockchain" if it uses Proof-of-Work to build it. Satoshi's "block chain" still exists for those that also use his extra spaces between sentences.
I used to call it blockchain, but after knowing satoshi called this 'block chain' I will follow him too.
Satoshi Nakamoto always referred to it as such:
However, I see the term "blockchain" used a lot anyways. Do you think we should use Satoshi's terminology to prevent confusion with Blockchain.info, who will usually just refer to themselves as Blockchain? Or am I worried about nothing?
Pretty interesting find that Satoshi used an space between block and chain. Personally I say blockchain because im used to blockchain.info, or Blockchain if it's the begining of a sentence lol. block chain
However, I see the term "blockchain" used a lot anyways. Do you think we should use Satoshi's terminology to prevent confusion with Blockchain.info, who will usually just refer to themselves as Blockchain? Or am I worried about nothing?
I have alway written it as Blockchain.
I this when you see it as block chain written by people like Satoshi it could have just been the auto correct.
I this when you see it as block chain written by people like Satoshi it could have just been the auto correct.
I think calling it the "Blockchain" (proper noun) is the worst idea of all, because keeping it lowercase was one last stance against confusion with the company 
I wrote about this here:
Blockchain or Block Chain?
Bitcoiners spell Bitcoin’s transaction database two different ways, and it is likely that you will see both used: the blockchain (one word) or the block chain (two words). When discussing Bitcoin’s transaction database, they both mean the same thing. There isn’t an official term because there is no official Bitcoin dictionary. However, Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, called it the block chain on multiple occasions. Also, the most popular Bitcoin wiki, bitcoin.it, calls it the block chain. For these reasons, block chain is considered to be more correct, however blockchain is often used colloquially.
Blockchain or Block Chain?
Bitcoiners spell Bitcoin’s transaction database two different ways, and it is likely that you will see both used: the blockchain (one word) or the block chain (two words). When discussing Bitcoin’s transaction database, they both mean the same thing. There isn’t an official term because there is no official Bitcoin dictionary. However, Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, called it the block chain on multiple occasions. Also, the most popular Bitcoin wiki, bitcoin.it, calls it the block chain. For these reasons, block chain is considered to be more correct, however blockchain is often used colloquially.
It's Blockchain 
After reading all previous comments I can see that majority of people is now using term: 'blockchain'. I just think for now any name will suffice whether it will be blockchain, Block Chain, block chain or Blockchain. We all know what is going on. But it would be helpful to use one standardized name in the future.
Blockchain all the way 
I call it "blockchain"
I rarely mention that word at the beginning of the sentence
I rarely mention that word at the beginning of the sentence
Rarely is not never
For example: "Blockchain technology is cool" or plural: "Blockchains are cool"
I call it "blockchain"
I rarely mention that word at the beginning of the sentence
I rarely mention that word at the beginning of the sentence
Satoshi Nakamoto always referred to it as such:
However, I see the term "blockchain" used a lot anyways. Do you think we should use Satoshi's terminology to prevent confusion with Blockchain.info, who will usually just refer to themselves as Blockchain? Or am I worried about nothing?
block chain
However, I see the term "blockchain" used a lot anyways. Do you think we should use Satoshi's terminology to prevent confusion with Blockchain.info, who will usually just refer to themselves as Blockchain? Or am I worried about nothing?
If it's in a sentence "blockchain". If it starts a sentence "Blockchain" for me
please add option "bloatchain"
Hey now, people are (supposedly) working on this issue so it doesn't become a bigger problem in the future.
blockchain in relation to technology
please add option "bloatchain"
Do you call it dog house or doghouse?
As a natural progression of English words commonly used together often join to form a new single word, or compound word. Satoshi used block chain because that made the most sense then. Prior to 2005 there certainly were no blockchains around. What usually happens is words start as two independent words like school bus, or rail way. Then people add a hyphen like rail-way. Eventually this merges into the single word: railway. It's "most correct" I believe to denote each stage as it happens in print over time.
We should probably be calling it block chain right now because most people still don't even know what crypto currency is. However, many of us that live and breathe this stuff daily have already skipped any hyphenated forms and went straight to blockchain based cryptocurrency
As a natural progression of English words commonly used together often join to form a new single word, or compound word. Satoshi used block chain because that made the most sense then. Prior to 2005 there certainly were no blockchains around. What usually happens is words start as two independent words like school bus, or rail way. Then people add a hyphen like rail-way. Eventually this merges into the single word: railway. It's "most correct" I believe to denote each stage as it happens in print over time.
We should probably be calling it block chain right now because most people still don't even know what crypto currency is. However, many of us that live and breathe this stuff daily have already skipped any hyphenated forms and went straight to blockchain based cryptocurrency
i call it like this : "blockchain" easy man .
In the earliest code release, Satoshi calls it "timechain" which is actually more descriptive of what it really is.
I beg to disagree, but thanks for the trivia anyway, I didn't know that
Here's a bit of trivia relevant to this topic.
In the earliest code release, Satoshi calls it "timechain"
which is actually more descriptive of what it really is.
I would call it the blockchain without capitals. Like stated previously capitals implies a proper name. A space between the two words separates the ideas to "block" and "chain" rather than a new technological entity known as the blockchain.
I think therefore Satoshi had the idea of te block chain, and the adaptors dubbed the idea into a new single word blockchain. I do not think it has to do with the .info site, though people do mistake them for one and the same thing. When working and developing an idea, the two words are describing what is going to become what we call it. The blockchain. Just like the bits and the coins we call bitcoins
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