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bitcoin

name
/ˈbɪtkɔɪn/UK/ˈbɪtˌkɔɪn/US

Etymology

From bit (“binary digit”) + coin, coined by Satoshi Nakamoto, believed to be a pseudonym for one or more people, in the domain name bitcoin.org registered on 18 August 2008; and in the title of the white paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, a link to which was posted on the cryptography mailing list metzdowd.com on October 31, 2008: see the quotation.

  1. derived from cuneus
  2. derived from coigne
  3. inherited from coyn
  4. compounded as bitcoin — “bit + coin”

Definitions

  1. A decentralized cryptocurrency using blockchain technology.

    • We do not accept bitcoin at this store.
    • [A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.

  2. A unit of the bitcoin (proper noun proper noun sense 1) cryptocurrency.

    • This item costs one bitcoin.

  3. Alternative letter-case form of bitcoin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bitcoin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA