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1040 Schedule-D Form
1099-B Form
1099-K Form
1099-MISC Form
1099-R Form
21 Million
401k Account
51% Attack
8949 Form
A
Abenomics
Account Beneficiary
Adaptor Signature
Address
Agency Model
Air Gap
Algorithmic Trading
All-Time High (ATH)
Allocation
Alpha
Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
Annual Percentage Yield (APY)
Annuity
Anonymity
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Arbitrage
Ask
Assets Under Management (AUM)
Assume Valid
AssumeUTXO
Asynchronous Payments
Atomic Multi-Path Payments (AMP)
Austrian Economics
Automated Clearing House (ACH)
Average Cost Basis
B
Backwardation
Backwards Compatibility
Balance Sheet
Bank of Canada
Bank of England
Bank of Japan (BOJ)
Bank Run
Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
Bank Wire
Banking Desert
Bankruptcy
Base58
Base64
Basic Earnings Per Share (EPS)
Basis of Lightning Technology (BOLT)
Basis Points
Batching
Bear Market
Bear Trap
Bearer-asset
Bech32
Bech32m
Beneficial Owner
Beta
Bid
Bid-Ask Spread
Binary
BIP 125 (Replace-by-Fee)
BIP 16 (P2SH)
BIP 174 (PSBT)
BIP 32 (Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets)
BIP 340 (Schnorr Signatures)
BIP 341 (Taproot)
BIP 342 (Tapscript)
BIP 39 (Mnemonic Phrases)
BIP 44 (Derivation Paths for P2PKH)
BIP 49 (Derivation Paths for Wrapped Segwit)
BIP 8 (Soft Fork Activation)
BIP 84 (Derivation Paths for Native Segwit)
BIP 9 (Soft Fork Activation)
Bit
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Implementations
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)
Bitcoin Knots
Bitcoin-Qt
Bitcoind
BitLicense
Blind Signatures
Block
Block Explorer
Block Header
Block Height
Block Reward
Block Size
Block Subsidy
Block Weight
Blockchain
Bloom Filter
Bond
Brokerage
Brute Force Attack
BTC
Bubble
Bull Market
Bull Trap
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Plan
Byte
Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
Byzantine Generals Problem
C
Call Option
Cantillon Effect
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Capital Controls
Capital Expenditure
Capital Gains
Capital Losses
Capital Markets
Cash
Cashu
Censorship Resistance
Chain Analysis
Change Output
Chaumian Principles
Checksum
Child-Pays-for-Parent (CPFP)
Clearinghouse
Coase Theorem
Coin Clipping
Coin Selection
Coinbase Transaction
CoinJoin
CoinSwap
Cold Storage
Collaborative Custody
Collateral
Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC)
Common Input Ownership Heuristic
Confirmation
Consensus
Consensus Mechanism
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Contango
Core Inflation
Correlation
Cost Basis
Cost Basis Accounting
Cost of Capital
Cost-Push Inflation
Counterparty
Counterparty Risk
Coupon
Covenants
Credit
Credit Expansion
Cryptography
Cumulative Inflation
Currency Peg
Custodial
Cyclical Stock
Cypherpunk
D
Dandelion
Debasement
Debt
Decentralization
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
Decentralized Ledger
Default
Deflation
Delta
Demand-Pull Inflation
Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Depth Chart
DER Format
Derivation Path
Derivatives
Devaluation
Diamond Hands
Difficulty
Discounting
Discreet Log Contract (DLC)
Discrete Log Problem (DLP)
Diversification
Dividend
Divisibility
Dodd-Frank Act
Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)
Double Spend
Durability
Dust
Dust Attack
E
Early Adopter
eCash
ECDSA
Eclipse Attack
Economic Expansion
Elasticity
Eltoo
Encoding
Encryption
End-to-End (E2E) Encryption
Equilibrium
Equity
Erlay
Escrow
European Central Bank (ECB)
Exchange
Exchange Traded Fund (ETF)
Executive Order 6102
Expected Return
F
Bitcoin Transaction Fee
Face Value
Faucet
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
Federal Reserve System
Fedimint
Fiat Currency
Fiduciary Duty
FIFO
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
Fiscal Policy
Fisher Effect
Fixed Cost
Float
Foreign Exchange Risk
Fork
Forward Contract
Fractional Reserve Banking
Fungibility
Futures Contract
G
Game Theory
Gamma
Generator Point
Genesis Block
Glass-Steagall Act
Gossip Network
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Gresham's Law
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
H
Hal Finney
Halving
Hard Cap
Hard Commodity
Hard Fork
Hard Money
Hardware Wallet
Hash Function
Hash Rate
Hashed Time Locked Contract (HTLC)
Hedge Position
Hexadecimal
Hierarchical Channel
Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Wallet
HIFO
HODL
Hot Wallet
Howey Test
Hyperinflation
Hypothecation
I
Immutability
Inbound Liquidity
Index Price
Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
Inflation
Inflation Hedge
Initial Block Download (IBD)
Input Sequence (nSequence)
Insolvency
Interest Rate
Issue Price
J
Junk Bond
Just-a-Bunch-of-Keys (JBOK)
K
Key Send
Know Your Customer (KYC)
L
Layer
Lender of Last Resort
LevelDB
Leverage
LIFO
Light Client
Lightning Channel
Lightning Implementations
Lightning Invoice
Lightning Network
Lightning Network Penalty
Lightning Node
Limit Order
Liquid Network
Liquidity
Liquidity Trap
LNURL
Long Position
M
M-of-N
Mainnet
Maker
Malleability
Margin Trading
Market Capitalization
Market Depth
Market Impact
Market Maker
Market Order
Maturity Date
Medium of Exchange
Mempool
Mempool Explorer
Merged Mining
Merkelized Alternative Script Tree (MAST)
Merkle Root
Merkle Tree
Merkle-Sum Tree
Metcalfe's Law
Miner-Activated Soft Fork (MASF)
Mining
Mining Pool
Miniscript
Mixing
Mnemonic
Monetary Base
Monetary Policy
Money Multiplier
Money Supply
Moore's Law
Moral Hazard
Multi-Path Payment (MPP)
Multisig
MuSig
N
Bitcoin Node
Negative Interest Rates
Neutrino
Nominal Interest Rate
Non-Custodial
Nonce
Nostr
O
Off-Chain
Off-Ramp
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
On-Chain
On-Ramp
Onion Messages
OP_CAT
OP_RETURN
Opcode
Open Source
Operating Expenditure
Opportunity Cost
Options Contract
Oracle Problem
Order Book
Order Execution
Orphan Block
OTC Desk
Outbound Liquidity
P
Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT)
Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK)
Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH)
Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH)
Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR)
Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash (P2WPKH)
Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash (P2WSH)
PayJoin (P2EP)
Payment Rail
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Peg
Pegged-to-Market Order
Penalty Transaction
Perpetual Swap
Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index
Phillips Curve
Phishing Attack
Physical Settlement
Pizza Day
Point Time Locked Contract (PTLC)
Portability
Preimage
Present Value
Price Discovery
Prime Broker
Principal
Principal Model
Private Key
Private Sector
Probate
Proof of Reserves
Proof-of-Work (PoW)
Protocol
Pseudonym
Public Key
Public Sector
Purchasing Power
Put Option
Q
QR Code
Quantitative Easing (QE)
Quantitative Tightening
R
Real GDP
Real Interest Rate
Recession
Redeem Script
Regtest
Rehypothecation
Reorganization
Replace-By-Fee (RBF)
Request-for-Quote (RFQ)
Reserve Ratio
Resistance
Risk Free Rate
Round Amounts Heuristic
S
Bitcoin Script
Saleability
Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto
Savings Account
Scarcity
Schnorr Signature
Script Type Heuristic
Script Witness
ScriptPubKey
ScriptSig
SEC Format
Secp256k1
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Security
Seed
SegWit
Seigniorage
Self-custody
Settlement
SHA-256
Shamir Backup
Sharpe Ratio
Short Selling
Short Squeeze
Sidechain
Sighash Flag
Signature
Signet
Silent Payments
Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
Slippage
Smart Contract
Social Enginnering
Soft Commodity
Soft Fork
Solvency
Sound Money
Sovereignty
Sparse Merkle Tree
Splicing
Spot Price
Spread
Stablecoin
Stagflation
Stagnation
Statechains
Stock-to-Flow (S2F)
Stop-Loss Order
Store of Value (SOV)
Stratum V2
Stuckless Payments
Submarine Swaps
Support
Surety Bond
SWIFT System
Swiss National Bank
Sybil Attack
T
Taint
Taker
Taproot
Taproot Assets
Tapscript
Taro Asset Universe
Tax Lot
tBTC
Technical Analysis
Testnet
Thiers' Law
Tick Size
Time Preference
Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
Timechain
Timelock
Too Big to Fail
Tor Network
Toxicity
Transaction
Transaction ID (txid)
Treasury Bill (T-Bill)
Trust
Trustee
Trustless
Turing Completeness
U
U.S. Treasury
Unbanked
Underbanked
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
Unit of Account
Unix Timestamp
Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
Uptime
User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF)
UTC
Utreexo
UTXO Set
V
Vanity Address
Variable Cost
Vaults
vByte
Verifiability
Virtual Currency
Volatility
Volume
Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
vSize
W
Wage-Price Spiral
Wallet
Wallet Import Format (WIF)
Watch-Only Wallet
Watchtower
Wealth
Weekly Moving Average (WMA)
Weight Unit
Whale
Whitepaper
Window Guidance
Witness
Witness Script
Wrapped SegWit
wtxid
X
Extended Private Key (Xprv)
Extended Public Key (Xpub)
Y
Yield
Yield Curve
Yield Curve Control
Ypub (Extended Public Key)
Z
Zero Confirmation Channels
Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP)
Zpub (Extended Public Key)