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- Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
- Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
- Proto-Indo-European*dwís
- Proto-Italic*dwis
- Proto-Italic*dwiznos
- Latinbīnus
- Late Latinbīnāriu
- Middle Englishbinarie
- Englishbinary
- Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-der.?
- Latindigitus
- Middle Englishdigit
- Englishdigit
- Englishbinary digitabbr.
- Englishbitinflu.
- Englishbit
- Latincuneus
- Old Frenchcoin
- Middle Englishcoyn
- Englishcoin
- English todaybitcoin
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.
First known use, by meaning
- from 2008 A decentralized cryptocurrency using blockchain technology.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.