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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
Algorithmic Trading
All-Time High (ATH)
Allocation
Alpha
Annuity
Anonymity
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
Arbitrage
Ask
Assets Under Management (AUM)
Assume Valid
AssumeUTXO
Atomic Multi-Path Payments (AMP)
Automated Clearing House (ACH)
Average Cost Basis
B
Backwardation
Backwards Compatibility
Balance Sheet
Bank of Canada
Bank of England
Bank of Japan (BOJ)
Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
Bank Wire
Bankruptcy
Base58
Base64
Basic Earnings Per Share (EPS)
Basis of Lightning Technology (BOLT)
Basis Points
Batching
Bear Market
Bear Trap
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-Qt
Bitcoind
BitLicense
Block
Block Explorer
Block Header
Block Height
Block Reward
Block Size
Block Subsidy
Block Weight
Blockchain
Bloom Filter
Bond
Brokerage
Brute Force Attack
BTC
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 Controls
Capital Expenditure
Capital Gains
Capital Losses
Capital Markets
Cash
Censorship Resistance
Chain Analysis
Change Output
Checksum
Child-Pays-for-Parent (CPFP)
Clearinghouse
Coase Theorem
Coin Clipping
Coin Selection
Coinbase Transaction
CoinJoin
CoinSwap
Cold Storage
Collateral
Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC)
Common Input Ownership Heuristic
Confirmation
Consensus
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Contango
Correlation
Cost Basis
Cost Basis Accounting
Cost of Capital
Counterparty
Counterparty Risk
Coupon
Covenant
Credit
Cryptography
Cumulative Inflation
Custodial
Cyclical Stock
Cypherpunk
D
Dandelion
Debasement
Debt
Decentralized Exchange (DEX)
Decentralized Ledger
Deflation
Delta
Denial of Service (DoS) Attack
Depth Chart
DER Format
Derivation Path
Derivatives
Devaluation
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
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
Fiat Currency
Fiduciary Duty
FIFO
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
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
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
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)
Interest Rate
Issue Price
J
Junk Bond
Just-a-Bunch-of-Keys (JBOK)
K
Key Send
Know Your Customer (KYC)
L
Layer
Leverage
LIFO
Light Client
Lightning Channel
Lightning Implementations
Lightning Invoice
Lightning Network
Lightning Network Penalty
Limit Order
Liquid Network
Liquidity
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
Merkelized Alternative Script Tree (MAST)
Merkle Root
Merkle Tree
Merkle-Sum Tree
Metcalfe's Law
Miner-Activated Soft Fork (MASF)
Mining
Mining Pool
Mixing
Mnemonic
Monetary Base
Money Multiplier
Money Supply
Moore's Law
Multi-Path Payment (MPP)
Multisig
MuSig
N
Bitcoin Node
Negative Interest Rates
Neutrino
Non-Custodial
Nonce
O
Off-Chain
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
On-Chain
Opcode
Open Source
Operating Expenditure
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
Phishing Attack
Physical Settlement
Point Time Locked Contract (PTLC)
Portability
Preimage
Present Value
Price Discovery
Prime Broker
Principal
Principal Model
Private Key
Probate
Proof-of-Work (PoW)
Protocol
Pseudonym
Public Key
Put Option
Q
QR Code
Quantitative Easing (QE)
R
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
Scarcity
Schnorr Signature
Script Type Heuristic
Script Witness
ScriptPubKey
ScriptSig
SEC Format
Secp256k1
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Security
Seed
SegWit
Settlement
SHA-256
Sharpe Ratio
Short Selling
Short Squeeze
Sidechain
Sighash Flag
Signature
Signet
Simplified Payment Verification (SPV)
Slippage
Smart Contract
Social Enginnering
Soft Commodity
Soft Fork
Solvency
Sparse Merkle Tree
Spot Price
Spread
Stablecoin
Stagnation
Stock-to-Flow (S2F)
Stop-Loss Order
Store of Value (SOV)
Support
Surety Bond
SWIFT System
Swiss National Bank
Sybil Attack
T
Taint
Taker
Taproot
Tapscript
Taro
Taro Asset Universe
Tax Lot
tBTC
Technical Analysis
Testnet
Thiers' Law
Tick Size
Time Preference
Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP)
Timelock
Tor Network
Toxicity
Transaction
Transaction ID (txid)
Treasury Bill (T-Bill)
Trust
Trustee
Turing Completeness
U
U.S. Treasury
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)
Unit of Account
Unix Timestamp
Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
Uptime
User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF)
UTC
Utreexo
UTXO Set
V
Variable Cost
vByte
Verifiability
Virtual Currency
Volatility
Volume
Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)
vSize
W
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
Ypub (Extended Public Key)
Z
Zpub (Extended Public Key)