@dust questioned coinage of term "cypherspace"

a catch all term, for all cryptographically secure p2p systems: i.e, bitcoin, bittorrent, ipfs, ethereum, zeronet, secure-scuttlebutt, space or structures held together by "cypherlinks"

what I recall is @substack suggested "cypherlink" as the term for a hash used as a link (also called a merkle link in ipfs) which I liked because it sounded like a riff on "hyperlink" and "cypherpunk". After that, "cypherspace" was pretty obvious.

I was staying with @substack and @johnny at the time. The design I had planned was cyphernet but switched to the secure-scuttlebutt design because it was simpler and had more predictable replication performance.

cypherspace is a riff on "cyberspace" so if cyberspace is a space, then if we can create something analogous to cyberspace with cyphers, that is cypherspace.

Wondering: which types of communication mediums feel like spaces? is it those ones that enable many to many communication? So letters to the editor in say, a magazine constitutes a "space"

cc: #cypherspace