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Blockchain Glossary For Beginners

Blockchain Glossary For Beginners

Published on March 13th, 2024

Unsure of all the terms swirling around Blockchain? This beginner-friendly glossary breaks down key concepts like blocks, tokens, and consensus mechanisms in an easy-to-understand way. Demystify the world of blockchain and see how this revolutionary technology is changing the way we interact with data and value.

New to blockchain? Our Blockchain Glossary for Beginners is your one-stop shop! Explore clear definitions for terms like “block,” “cryptocurrency,” and more. Understand how blockchain works and its potential to transform industries.

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Absolute Advantage Active Management Ad Hoc
Airdrops Algorithm Allocation
AON Altcoin Angel Investor
Anti-Money Laundering ASIC-Resistance Arbitrage
Ask Price Asset Management Asynchronous
Atomic Swap Attack Surface Auction

 

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Bag Bear Markets Benchmarking
Beta Coefficient Bid Price Bid-Ask
Bitcoin Bitcoin Address Bitcoin Pizza
Bitcoin Dominance Black Swan Event Blocks
Block Explorer Block Header Block Height
Block Reward Blockchain Bloom Filter
Bounty Break-Even Point Bull Market

 

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Candidate Blocks Candlesticks Capitulation
Censorship Resistance Central Bank CPU
Cipher Circulating Supply Cloud
Collateral Colocation CFTC
Confirmation Time Cryptocurrency Cryptography

 

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Daemon Dead Cat Bounce Decentralized Applications
DAOs Decentralized Exchange Decryption
Deep Web Delisting Difficulty
Diversification Dollar-Cost Averaging Double-Spending

 

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Eclipse Attack EMH Encryption
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance ERC-20 Exchanges

 

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Falling Knife Fiat Fill Or Kill Order
First Mover Advantage Fiscal Policy Forced Liquidation
Forced Liquidation

 

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Gas Gas Limit General Public License
Genesis Block GitHub Gossip Protocols
Gwei

 

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Hacker Halving Hard Cap
Hash Hash Rate Hashed TimeLock Contract (HTLC)
HODL Honeypot

 

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Iceberg Orders Immutability Index
ICO Initial Exchange Offering Initial Public Offering
Initial Public Offering Integrated Circuit Interoperability
InterPlanetary File System Isolated Margin Issuance

 

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Jager

 

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Know Your Customer (KYC)

 

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Latency Law Of Demand Layer 2
Ledger Lightning Network Liquidity

 

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Mainnet Mainnet Swap Malware
‘Margin Trading’ Market Capitalization Market Momentum
Market Order Masternode Mempool
Merged Mining Merkle Tree Metadata
Mining Monetary Policy Moon
Multisignature

 

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Node Non-Fungible Tokens Nonce

 

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Off-Chain Offshore Account One Cancels The Other (OCO)
Open Source Software Order Blocks Orphan Blocks

 

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Paper Wallet Passive Management P2P
Pegged Exchange Rate Phishing Plasma
Ponzi Scheme Price Action Private Key
Progressive Web Application Proof Of Stake (POS) Pseudorandom

 

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Quantum Computer

 

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Race Attack Ransomware Rekt
Relative Strength Index Return On Investment

 

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Satoshi SAFU SEC
Security Audit Seed Phrase Segregated Witness
Selfish Mining Attack Sell Walls Sharpe Ratio
Snapshot Source Code StableCoin
Staking Pool State Channels Store Of Value
Supercomputer

 

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Taker Ticker Tokens
Token Lockup Token Sale Transaction ID (TXID)
Trustless

 

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Unit Of Account UTXOs User Interface

 

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Verification Code Virtual Machine (VM) Vladimir Club

 

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Wallet Weak Subjectivity Whale
Whitelisting WINk Wick

 

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Zero-Knowledge Proof zk-SNARK

 

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