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Crypto Glossary
List of terms and their definitions used in the crypto space.
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51% Attack
If more than half the computing power on the network is in control of a single person or a group of persons, then a 51% attack is in place.
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Anarcho-capitalism
A political philosophy and modern school of anarchist thought that advocates the elimination of centralized state domination.
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Arbitrage
A way of taking advantage of differences in price of the same commodity in two or more exchanges or markets.
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ASIC
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Astroturfing
The practice of masking the sponsors of a message to make it appear as though it is supported by grassroots participants.
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Atomic Swap
A way of letting users directly exchange one type of cryptocurrency for another, off-chain or on a different blockchain.
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Bit
A sub-unit of one bitcoin.
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Bollinger Band
A type of statistical chart characterizing the prices and volatility over time of a financial instrument or commodity.
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Brute-force Attack
An attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of eventually guessing correctly.
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Chain Split
Another term used for Fork.
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Coinbase
The content of the 'input' of a generation transaction.
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Cold Storage
An offline storage of cryptocurrencies.
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Consensus
A general agreement among the members of a group or community.
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Crypto-jacking
The use another party’s computer to mine cryptocurrency without their consent.
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Cypherpunk
Any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.
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Dark Web
World Wide Web content that exists on darknets.
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Dead Cat Bounce
A small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock.
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Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)
A consensus mechanism where users can vote for delegates producing blocks on the blockchain.
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Digital Signature
A digital code that is generated and authenticated by public key encryption.
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FOMO
A pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent.
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Fork
When developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it.
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FUD
An acronym that stands for “fear, uncertainty and doubt”.
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Full Node
Node that downloads a blockchain’s entire history in order to observe and enforce its rules.
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Genesis Block
The first block of a blockchain.
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Halving
An event in which the total rewarded bitcoins per confirmed block halves.
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Hard Fork
Rule change such that the software validating according to the old rules will see the blocks produced according to the new rules as invalid.
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Hash Function
A mathematical algorithm that maps data of arbitrary size (often called the "message") to a bit string of a fixed size.
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Hash Power (or Hash Rate)
A unit of measurement for the amount of computing power the Bitcoin network is consuming in order to be continuously operational.
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Hybrid PoS/PoW
A Hybrid PoS/PoW cryptocurrency is one that allows consensus to occur through both proof of stake and proof of work mining.
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Merkle Tree
A tree in which every leaf node is labelled with the hash of a data block.
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Mining
A validation of transactions.
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Node
A copy of the blockchain that exists on a computer or other type of hardware device.
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Nonce
An arbitrary number used only once in a cryptographic communication.
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Proof-of-Work (PoW)
A consensus mechanism deters denial of service attacks and other service abuses such as spam on a network.
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Relative Strength Index (RSI)
A technical indicator that tells the current and historical strength or weakness of a stock or market.
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REKT
A shorthand slang for “wrecked”.
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Satoshi
The smallest unit of bitcoin with a value of 0.00000001 BTC.
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Scrypt
A password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival.
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Second-Layer Solutions
Solutions that process data in a way that decreases the burden of the base layer (root chain).
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Seed Phrase
A list of words which store all the information needed to recover a Bitcoin wallet.
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Sharding
A scaling approach that enables splitting of blockchain network into individual segments (or shards).
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Sidechain
A designation for a blockchain ledger that runs in parallel to a primary blockchain.
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Soft Fork
It occurs when old network nodes do not follow a rule followed by the newly upgraded nodes.
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Stablecoins
Cryptocurrencies designed to minimize the volatility of the price of the stablecoin.
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Staking
A process of pooling (delegating) the validation stakes with one wallet, called a staking pool.
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State Channel
The process in which users transact with one another directly outside of the blockchain.
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