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Definitions and terminology related to cryptoeconomics, blockchain and distributed ledger technology.
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51% Attack
Access Tokens
Address
Airdrop
Altcoin
Anti-money Laundering (AML)
Arbitrage
ASIC
Asset-backed Tokens
Atomic Swap
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)
Bitcoin Pizza
Bitcoin Whitepaper
BitLicense
Block
Blockchain
Blockchain Oracle
Block Explorer
Block Header
Block Height
Block Reward
Block Template
BTC/BCH Fork
Bug Bounty
Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Candidate Block
Circulating Supply
Coin Age
Coin Mixing
Cold Storage
Confidential Transactions
Confirmation Time
Consensus
Consortium Blockchain
Contribution Tokens
Cryptocurrency
Cryptographically Secure Pseudo Random Number Generator
Cuckoo Cycle
Cut-throughs
Cypherpunk
Dandelion Routing
DApp
DDoS
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS)
Difficulty
Directed Acyclic Graph
Distributed Ledger
Double Spend
Dust
Eclipse Attack
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
Energy-Multiuse
ERC-20
ERC-223
ERC-721
ERC-777
Exchange
Faucet
Fiat Currency
Formal Verification
Free Transaction Relay Policy
Full Node
Futarchy
Gas
Genesis Block
Governance Tokens
GPU
Hard Cap
Hard Fork
Hardware Wallet
Hash
Hashcash
Hashed TimeLock Contract (HTLC)
Hash Rate / Hash Power
HD Wallet
Hodl
Howey Test
Hybrid PoW/PoS
Iceberg Order
Initial Coin Offering (ICO)
Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)
Kimoto's Gravity Well
Know Your Customer (KYC)
Layer 2 Scalability
Leased Proof of Stake (LPoS)
Lightning Network
Lightweight Node
Mainnet Swap
Mainnet / Testnet
Maker/Taker
Masternode
mBTC
Merkle Tree
Metadata
Micropayment
Mining
Mining Pool
Multi-Signature Address
Multisignature Transaction
NLockTime
Node
Nonce
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
'Nothing-at-Stake' Problem
One-Way Function
Orphan Block (Stale Block)
Over-the-Counter Trading (OTC)
Paper Wallet
Payment Channel
Payment Tokens
Peeling
Pegged Currency
Permissioned Blockchain
Plasma
Private Key
Private Sale
Proof of Authority (PoA)
Proof of Capacity (PoC)
Proof of Importance (PoI)
Proof of Keys (PoK)
Proof of Spacetime (PoSt)
Proof of Stake (PoS)
Proof of Work (PoW)
Public-key Cryptography
Pump and Dump
Quantum Computing
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Revenue-Sharing Tokens
Ring Signatures
SAFT
Satoshi
Scalability
Scrypt
Security Token
Security Token Offering (STO)
SegWit
Seigniorage Shares
Selfish Mining
SHA-256
Sharding
Sidechain
Silk Road Marketplace
Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
Smart Contract
Soft Fork
Stablecoin
State Channel
Technocracy
The DAO
Token Functions
Token Sale
Transacitons Per Second, TPS, tx/s
Transaction Finality (Probabilistic/Deterministic)
Turing-Complete
Turing-Completeness
Two-Sided Market
uBTC
Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXO)
Verifier's Dilemma
Virtual Machine
Web3
WETH
Zero-Knowledge Proof
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'Secure Hashing Algorithm' is a title given to a set of cryptographic hashing algorithms designed by the NSA.