Jameson Lopp on Nostr: I'm pretty sure that "the halvening" was first coined as a phrase for Dogecoin's ...
I'm pretty sure that "the halvening" was first coined as a phrase for Dogecoin's halving, but then it was adopted by Bitcoiners and now it's tough to trace the etymology.
I cringe every time I read it.
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