bitcoin
/ˈbɪtˌkɔɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of bitcoin.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of bitcoin.
Example Sentences
- "We do not accept bitcoin at this store."
- "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [title] […] What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party. […] In this paper, we propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server to generate computational proof of the chronological order of transactions."
- "[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."
- "[Bitcoins] do not depend on the state banks, but are created through mining. Mining is also called as hashing. It is a process of solving complex math problems using those computers which run bitcoin software."
- "Other e-commerce sites that accept bitcoin are: Bitcoinshop.us which offers products like watches and air conditioners and ships to people within the United States; […] Travel booking websites also start to accept bitcoin sales on flights, hotel bookings to at least 200,000 hotels and railway Amtrak through their platforms."
- "Individual bitcoin users are not the only driving force in terms of securing the bitcoin network. Over the past few years, dedicated bitcoin nodes have been added to the network with the sole purpose of receiving and broadcasting new bitcoin transactions to other users and nodes on the network."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *dwís Proto-Italic *dwis Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *dwiznos Latin bīnus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -ārius Late Latin bīnāriuslbor. Middle English binarie English binary Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-der.? Latin digitusbor. Middle English digit English digit English binary digitabbr. ▲ English bitinflu. English bit Latin cuneusder. Old French coinbor. Middle English coyn English coin English bitcoin 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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɪtˌkɔɪn/
- British English: /ˈbɪtkɔɪn/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
Subdivisions of bitcoin
0.1 BTC
0.01 BTC
0.001 BTC
0.000001 BTC
0.00000001 BTC
Other terms