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terminology – Where was the term “coinbase” first coined, who first used it? – Beragampengetahuan
The white paper doesn’t mention the term “coinbase” (in reference to the reward transaction). I see the first version of the software main.cpp does: // First transaction must be coinbase, the rest must not be if (vtx.empty() || !vtx[0].IsCoinBase()) return error(“CheckBlock() : first tx is not coinbase”); for (int i = 1; i < vtx.size(); […]