although most people now call it the blockchain, the chain of blocks was originally referred to as the "timechain" by satoshi in a pre-release version of the bitcoin source code
thread with this and other tidbits from this early version:
https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1106028072799744002
https://tftc.io/issue-441
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