Re: [Taler] presenting refreshment

[Jeff Burdges]

On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 00:21 +0200, Christian Grothoff wrote:
> > first: about the term 'identity', which was quite a bad choice.
> > what about 'unminted coins' vs. 'minted coins'?
> 
> Better, but I still don't really like it. An "unminted coin" isn't
> really a coin, it's some kind of raw material (like a chunk of
> metal).
> With your terminology, we'd have to everywhere say 'minted coin'
> where
> we currently just write 'coin', and that makes no sense as all 'real'
> coins are 'minted' by some mint.  I think we should stick to 'coin'
> instead of 'minted coin'. There are better terms for "unminted coin",
> like flan or planchet or "coin blank".  I could go for planchet (de:
> Rohling, fr: flan de forçage).

I doubt this needs any special terminology since it's just an internal
state of a known algorithm type, but candidate (coin) is better known
and more precise if terminology is needed.

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