diff --git a/docs/jargon-org.txt b/docs/jargon-org.txt index a6b8b60..143110b 100644 --- a/docs/jargon-org.txt +++ b/docs/jargon-org.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Sunday, 30 April 2017 10:37AM UTC +This file last generated Monday, 11 December 2017 10:37AM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -5931,6 +5931,9 @@ vi. See like nailing jelly to a tree. *** naive user n. A luser. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience. When this is applied to someone who has experience, there is a definite implication of stupidity. +*** nakamoto scheme +Originally coined by Preston Byrne, in which the modus operandi of Bitcoin is considered to be sufficiently dissimilar to a pyramid scheme to warrant the creation of a new term. In a pyramid scheme there is typically one villain at the top, but within a system like Bitcoin the prime mover is the algorithm and not any particular individual - even its original inventor. Like a pyramid scheme, the algorithm determines from the outset how value to get distributed within the system. What superficially appears impartial and coldly mathematical has a predetermined social outcome. + *** nano /nanoh/ , n. [CMU: from nanosecond ] A brief period of time. Be with you in a nano means you really will be free shortly, i.e., implies what mainstream people mean by in a jiffy (whereas the hackish use of jiffy is quite different see jiffy ). diff --git a/docs/jargon.1.gz b/docs/jargon.1.gz index 15a91be..162c23d 100644 Binary files a/docs/jargon.1.gz and b/docs/jargon.1.gz differ diff --git a/docs/jargon.html b/docs/jargon.html index b269e73..dc631e6 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.html +++ b/docs/jargon.html @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Free Documentation License".

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n. A luser. Tends to imply someone who is ignorant mainly owing to inexperience. When this is applied to someone who has experience, there is a definite implication of stupidity.

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+ Originally coined by Preston Byrne, in which the modus operandi of Bitcoin is considered to be sufficiently dissimilar to a pyramid scheme to warrant the creation of a new term. In a pyramid scheme there is typically one villain at the top, but within a system like Bitcoin the prime mover is the algorithm and not any particular individual - even its original inventor. Like a pyramid scheme, the algorithm determines from the outset how value to get distributed within the system. What superficially appears impartial and coldly mathematical has a predetermined social outcome. +

nano

/nanoh/ , n. [CMU: from nanosecond ] A brief period of time. Be with you in a nano means you really will be free shortly, i.e., implies what mainstream people mean by in a jiffy (whereas the hackish use of jiffy is quite different see jiffy ). diff --git a/entries/nakamoto_scheme.txt b/entries/nakamoto_scheme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1a2de5 --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/nakamoto_scheme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +nakamoto scheme + +Originally coined by Preston Byrne, in which the modus operandi of Bitcoin is considered to be sufficiently dissimilar to a pyramid scheme to warrant the creation of a new term. In a pyramid scheme there is typically one villain at the top, but within a system like Bitcoin the prime mover is the algorithm and not any particular individual - even its original inventor. Like a pyramid scheme, the algorithm determines from the outset how value to get distributed within the system. What superficially appears impartial and coldly mathematical has a predetermined social outcome. \ No newline at end of file