17 Jul, 2026
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What’s in a name? Terminology for Christian holidays in the spotlight – Beragampengetahuan

Photo by Ari Bowo Sucipto for Antara. On 12 September Muhadjir Effendy, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs, announced a change in nomenclature for Christian national holidays. The decision was made to adopt the term “Yesus Kristus”, the name of Jesus Christ used by Indonesian Christians, instead of “Isa al-Masih”, the Arabic term […]

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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(); […]