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RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The predominant term used in the white paper is "transaction." Satoshi's Bitcoin obtained, relayed, and redundantly stored transactions. Where "message" is used in the white paper it is just referring to a sub-protocol used to communicate transaction information between nodes. It's just common technical terminology used in protocol work -- protocols are by definition algorithms that send and receive messages, so "messages" in this computer science context is a generic technical te ...