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GlossaryThe ins, outs and abouts. An inventory of the basics of blockchain technology.
In a world where people jumble blockchain and crypto, we need to begin at the basics- let’s uncomplicate blockchain. Here is a comprehensive list of the terminology.
Now, you could teach a kid about blockchain.
A
- Agreement ledgers
- Altcoin
- Attestation Ledgers
- ASIC
- Accidental Fork
- API
- Asymmetric Cryptography (Public Key Cryptography)
- Atomic Swaps
B
- Blockchain
- Bitcoin
- Backwards Compatability
- Block ciphers
- Block height
- Block reward(s)
- Bitcoin ATM
- Block explorer
- Burning
C
- Cryptocurrency
- Cryptography
- Cryptocurrency addresses
- Chainsplit
- Contentious Hard Fork
- Consensus Forking
- Central ledger
- Chain linking
- Cipher
- Confirmation
- Consensus Process
- Consensus Point
- Consortium blockchain
- Cryptoanalysis
- Coinbase transaction
- Client
- Cryptojacking
- Cold Wallet
- Chainwashing
- Contentius Hard Fork
D
- DLT
- Double spend
- Difficulty
- Digital identity
- Digital commodity
- Decryption
- DAO
- dApp
- Design Goals
- Disintermediation
E
- Ether
- EVM
- EVM byte code
- Ethereum Classic
- Ethereum
- Encryption
- Exchanges
- ERC20 Token Standard
- ERC721 Token Standard
- ERC223 Token Standard
- Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
- Ethereum Test Network
F
G
H
I
K
L
M
- Mining
- Multisig
- Mining Difficulty
- Mining Pool
- Merkle tree
- Mining Rig
- Market Cap
- Master Node
- MetaMask
- Monero
- Micropayment
N
O
P
- Planned Hard Fork
- Protocols
- Proof of Work
- Proof of Stake
- Proof of Authority
- Permissioned blockchains
- Private key
- Permissioned ledger
- P2P
- Private Blockchains
- Public Blockchains
- Public Address
- Pseudonymity
- Participant
- Peer
- Private Currency
- Provably
- Provably Fair
- Proof of Space Time
- Planned Hard Fork
R
S
- Soft Fork
- Smart Contract
- STO
- Spin-off Coins
- Satoshi
- Satoshi Nakamoto
- Stream ciphers
- SHA 256
- Scrypt
- SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm)
- Sidechains
- Solidity
- SPV(Simplified Payment Verification) client
- State Channel
- Swarm
- Scalability
- Stablecoin
- Sharding
- SegWit
- Schnorr
T
- Tokenomics
- Transaction fees
- Transaction block
- Tokenless ledger
- Token
- Testnet
- Turing completeness
- TestRPC
- Truffle