[Ads-l] Coinage of "Cryptocurrency"

[Ben Zimmer]

"Cryptocurrency" is covered in the Fall 2014 installment of "Among the New
Words" in American Speech 89(3), p. 357.

http://bit.ly/ATNW89-3

The earliest citation we give there is from the archived homepage of
bitcoin.org from Jan. 6, 2010.

2010 (Jan 6) Bitcoin.org http://www.bitcoin.org/ (Internet Archive; head &
text)
Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency / Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network based
anonymous
digital currency. Peer-to-peer (P2P) means that there is no central
authority
to issue new money or keep track of transactions.

Link to the archived page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100106082749/http://www.bitcoin.org/

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 8:14 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:

> You'll probably want this New Yorker article from 2011, when clearly the
> interest in both cryptocurrency and blockchain was ticking up. It has
> pointers to earlier articles to check out.
> https://cryptome.org/0005/bitcoin-who.pdf
>
> This bibliography has a 2010 article in Russian which appears to be using
> the Russian verison of "cryptocurrency".
>
> https://blockchainlibrary.org/2017/10/most-cited-cryptocurrency-publications/
>
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:11 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I would also be interested in information about the earliest use of the
> > word "cryptocurrency."
> >
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> > Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
> > Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 6:56 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > Subject: Coinage of "Blockchain"
> >
> > Can anyone help me to determine the earliest use of the term "blockchain"
> > in its cryptocurrency meaning?
> >
> >

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