[Ads-l] Coinage of "Cryptocurrency"

[Chris Waigl]

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."
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> Fred Shapiro
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> Can anyone help me to determine the earliest use of the term "blockchain"
> in its cryptocurrency meaning?
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> Fred Shapiro
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