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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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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51% Attack |