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21 Million
51% Attack
A
Address
Algorithmic Trading
Anonymity
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Ask
Assume Valid
AssumeUTXO
Atomic Multi-Path Payments (AMP)
B
Backwards Compatibility
Balance Sheet
Base58
Base64
Basis of Lightning Technology (BOLT)
Batching
Bech32
Bid
Bid-Ask Spread
Binary
BIP 32
BIP 39
Bit
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Implementations
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)
Bitcoin-Qt
Bitcoind
Block
Block Explorer
Block Header
Block Height
Block Reward
Block Size
Block Subsidy
Block Weight
Blockchain
Bloom Filter
Brokerage
Brute Force Attack
BTC
Byte
Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
Byzantine Generals Problem
C
Call Option
Capital Controls
Capital Expenditure
Capital Markets
Censorship Resistance
Chain Analysis
Change Output
Checksum
Child-Pays-for-Parent (CPFP)
Coin Selection
Coinbase
CoinJoin
Cold Storage
Common Input Ownership Heuristic
Confirmation
Consensus
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Correlation
Cost Basis
Counterparty Risk
Coupon
Cryptography
Custodial
Cypherpunk
D
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
Decentralized Ledger
Deflation
Depth Chart
DER Format
Derivation Path
Derivatives
Difficulty
Discreet Log Contract (DLC)
Discrete Log Problem (DLP)
Diversification
Dividend
Divisibility
Double Spend
Durability
Dust
Dust Attack
E
ECDSA
Eclipse Attack
Economic Expansion
Encoding
Encryption
Equity
Escrow
Exchange
F
Bitcoin Transaction Fee
Fiat Currency
Fork
Forward Contract
Fungibility
Futures Contract
G
Generator Point
Genesis Block
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
H
Halving
Hard Cap
Hard Commodity
Hard Fork
Hardware Wallet
Hash Function
Hash Rate
Hashed Time Locked Contract (HTLC)
Hedge Position
Hexadecimal
Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Wallet
HODL
Hot Wallet
Hypothecation
I
Immutability
Index Price
Inflation
Initial Block Download (IBD)
Interest Rate
J
Just-a-Bunch-of-Keys (JBOK)
K
Key Send
Know Your Customer (KYC)
L
Layer
Light Client
Lightning Channel
Lightning Implementations
Lightning Invoice
Lightning Network
Limit Order
Liquid Network
Liquidity
Long Position
M
M-of-N
Maker
Malleability
Margin Trading
Market Depth
Market Impact
Market Maker
Market Order
Mempool
Merkelized Alternative Script Tree (MAST)
Merkle Root
Merkle Tree
Miner-Activated Soft Fork (MASF)
Mining
Mining Pool
Mixing
Mnemonic
Monetary Base
Money Multiplier
Money Supply
Multi-Path Payment (MPP)
Multisig
MuSig
N
Bitcoin Node
Negative Interest Rates
Neutrino
Non-Custodial
Nonce
O
Off-Chain
On-Chain
Opcode
Open Source
Operating Expenditure
Options Contract
Oracle Problem
Order Book
Orphan Block
OTC Desk
P
P2PK
P2PKH
P2SH
P2WPKH
P2WSH
Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT)
PayJoin (P2EP)
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Peg
Pegged-to-Market Order
Penalty Transaction
Perpetual Swap
Point Time Locked Contract (PTLC)
Portability
Preimage
Price Discovery
Prime Broker
Private Key
Proof-of-Work (PoW)
Protocol
Pseudonym
Public Key
Put Option
Q
QR Code
R
Recession
Redeem Script
Regtest
Reorganization
Replace-By-Fee (RBF)
Request-for-Quote (RFQ)
Resistance
Round Amounts Heuristic
S
Bitcoin Script
Satoshi
Satoshi Nakamoto
Scarcity
Schnorr Signature
Script Type Heuristic
Script Witness
ScriptPubKey
ScriptSig
SEC Format
Secp256k1
Seed
SegWit
Settlement
SHA-256
Short Selling
Sidechain
Sighash Flag
Signature
Signet
Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
Slippage
Smart Contract
Soft Commodity
Soft Fork
Spot Price
Stop-Loss Order
Support
Sybil Attack
T
Taint
Taker
Taproot
Tapscript
Tax Lot
tBTC
Technical Analysis
Testnet
Tick Size
Time Preference
Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
Timelock
Tor Network
Toxicity
Transaction
Transaction ID (txid)
U
Unix Timestamp
Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF)
UTC
Utreexo
UTXO Set
V
vByte
Verifiability
Volatility
Volume
Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
vSize
W
Wallet
Wallet Import Format (WIF)
Watch-Only Wallet
Weekly Moving Average (WMA)
Weight Unit
Whale
Whitepaper
Witness
Witness Script
Wrapped SegWit
wtxid
X
Extended Private Key (Xprv)
Extended Public Key (Xpub)
Y
Yield
Ypub
Z
Zpub