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21 Million
401k Account
51% Attack
A
Address
Algorithmic Trading
Annuity
Anonymity
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Arbitrage
Ask
Assume Valid
AssumeUTXO
Atomic Multi-Path Payments (AMP)
Average Cost Basis
B
Backwards Compatibility
Balance Sheet
Base58
Base64
Basis of Lightning Technology (BOLT)
Basis Points
Batching
Bear Market
Bech32
Bech32m
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-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
Bull Market
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 Transaction
CoinJoin
CoinSwap
Cold Storage
Common Input Ownership Heuristic
Confirmation
Consensus
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Correlation
Cost Basis
Cost of Capital
Counterparty Risk
Coupon
Cryptography
Custodial
Cypherpunk
D
Debt
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
Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)
Double Spend
Durability
Dust
Dust Attack
E
ECDSA
Eclipse Attack
Economic Expansion
Eltoo
Encoding
Encryption
Equity
Erlay
Escrow
Exchange
F
Bitcoin Transaction Fee
Fiat Currency
Fork
Forward Contract
Fungibility
Futures Contract
G
Generator Point
Genesis Block
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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
Hyperinflation
Hypothecation
I
Immutability
Index Price
Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
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
Lightning Network Penalty
Limit Order
Liquid Network
Liquidity
Long Position
M
M-of-N
Maker
Malleability
Margin Trading
Market Capitalization
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
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)
Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
Peg
Pegged-to-Market Order
Penalty Transaction
Perpetual Swap
Point Time Locked Contract (PTLC)
Portability
Preimage
Present Value
Price Discovery
Prime Broker
Private Key
Probate
Proof-of-Work (PoW)
Protocol
Pseudonym
Public Key
Put Option
Q
QR Code
Quantitative Easing (QE)
R
Recession
Redeem Script
Regtest
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
Scarcity
Schnorr Signature
Script Type Heuristic
Script Witness
ScriptPubKey
ScriptSig
SEC Format
Secp256k1
Seed
SegWit
Settlement
SHA-256
Sharpe Ratio
Short Selling
Short Squeeze
Sidechain
Sighash Flag
Signature
Signet
Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
Slippage
Smart Contract
Soft Commodity
Soft Fork
Solvency
Spot Price
Stock-to-Flow (S2F)
Stop-Loss Order
Support
Sybil Attack
T
Taint
Taker
Taproot
Tapscript
Tax Lot
Tax Lot Accounting
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
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Extended Private Key (Xprv)
Extended Public Key (Xpub)
Y
Yield
Ypub (Extended Public Key)
Z
Zpub (Extended Public Key)