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Quote from: bg002h on December 31, 2013, 05:59:37 PM

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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I outlived my lifetime membership:)

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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Hi,
Back to your real question:

It was used here on June 7 2010:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/performance-counter-patch-and-rpc-extensions-169

It was used as an analogy on June 1, 2010 here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1318
and Feb 18, 2010:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.398

It may have been earlier on the dev list etc, but no time to look now.

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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mining

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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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Quote from: remotemass on December 30, 2013, 07:16:36 AM

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.

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I added it to urbandictionary

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Quote from: remotemass on December 30, 2013, 07:16:36 AM

I meant "mining" in the context of bitcoin, obviously...

Well I know the software calls it generate

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ASMR El Salvador

I meant "mining" in the context of bitcoin, obviously...

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Quote from: e521 on December 30, 2013, 07:00:59 AM

The oldest known mine on archaeological record

Mine itself is not verbal testimonial.

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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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mining (n.)
1520s, verbal noun from mine (v.1).

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Stone age?

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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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