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B

C

D

E

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J

K

L

M

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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

X

Extended Private Key (Xprv)

Extended Public Key (Xpub)

Y

Yield

Ypub (Extended Public Key)

Z

Zpub (Extended Public Key)