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Fun fact, "Block Chain" was coined by Hal Finney in a response to Satoshi on the Cryptography Mailing List. Satoshi liked the term so much, he modified the code notes of the Bitcoin v0.1 client, swapping all mentions of "Timechain" for "Block Chain" (except for one Timechain comment).
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