Full Definition of SMORGASBORD. 1. : a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes (as hors d'oeuvres, hot and cold meats, smoked and pickled fish, cheeses, salads, and relishes).2. : an often large heterogeneous mixture: melange. mÃ©lange a luncheon or supper buffet offering a variety of foods and dishes (as hors d'oeuvres, hot and cold meats, smoked and pickled fish, cheeses, salads, and relishes).
Generational theft is a phrase you can expect to be hearingâ¦ (Jewel Samad / AFP/Gettyâ¦) Here's a phrase you can expect to be hearing a lot in the national debate over fiscal policy, as we move past the sequester, which is the crisis du jour, and toward the budget cliff/government shutdown deadline looming at the end of March: Generational theft.. The core idea the term expresses is that we're spending so much more on our seniors than our children that future generations are being cheated. An important corollary is that the government debt we incur today will come slamming down upon the shoulders of our children and grandchildren.
Because there is a reward of brand new bitcoins for solving each block, every block also contains a record of which Bitcoin addresses or scripts are entitled to receive the reward. This record is known as a generation transaction, or a coinbase transaction, and is always the first transaction appearing in every block. The number of Bitcoins generated per block starts at 50 and is halved every 210,000 blocks (about four years). Bitcoin transactions are broadcast to the network by the sender, and all peers trying to solve blocks collect the transaction records and add them to the block they are working to solve.