1 | 51% Attack | When one or a group of miners control greater than 50% of the network's mining hashrate or computational power. |
2 | Ad Hoc | Only created or done when necessary. |
3 | Address | Used to send and received transactions. Often a user's public key |
4 | Airdrop | A free distribution of a coin to potential users |
5 | Algorithm | A sequence of unambiguous instructions used for the purpose of solving a problem. |
6 | All or None Order (AON) | An order that must be executed in its entirity or not executed at all. |
7 | All-Time High (ATH) | The highest price of a cryptocurrency in a base currency, such as a dollar, BTC, ETH, or BNB |
8 | Allocation | Percentage distribution of tokens. For example a project may allocate 40% of tokens to their team. |
9 | Alpha | A first look at a product released by a team to get feedback, usually in a less mature state than in beta. |
10 | Altcoin | A cryptocurrency that is alternative to Bitcoin. Used to describe cryptocurrencies that are not Bitcoin. |
11 | Anti Money Laundering (AML) | A framework consisting of legal and regulatory procedures to minimize and curb the flow of funds that are generated from illegal or dubious activities. |
12 | Application Programming Interface (API) | A collection of functions and procedures that allow users to interact/communicate with the data of an application or service, such as an exchange, to execute the features of the service programmatically. |
13 | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) | An Integrated Circuit customized for maximum performance in a particular use, rather than general-purpose use. |
14 | Arbitrage | Buying and selling of assets over different markets in order to take advantage of differing prices on the same asset. |
15 | ASIC-resistant | Achieved by requiring a large amount of memory when mining. This means that additional physical area is needed on the chip. As a result an ASIC would experience no significant speed increase. |
16 | Asking Price | Lowest price a seller is willing to accept on a sell order. |
17 | Asynchronous | Does not occur at the same time. |
18 | Atomic Swap | Smart contract technology that enables exchange of one cryptocurrency for another without using centralized intermediaries, such as exchanges. |
19 | Attack surface | Different points in software environments where an attacker can attempt to enter data or extract data. |
20 | Bags | The portfolio of altcoins one is holding |
21 | Batching | Processing transactions in a group. |
22 | Bear | A negative trend in prices of a market |
23 | Bear Trap | A false signal that there has been a reversal in a rising price trend. |
24 | Benchmark | Measuring performance of one thing by comparing it with another. |
25 | Beta | An early access program for users to test out a product and for a team to get feedback. |
26 | Bid Price | The price at which a buyer is willing to pay for an asset, security or commodity. |
27 | Bitcoin Dominance | The ratio of Bitcoin's market capitalization versus the sum of the market capitalizations of all cryptocurrencies. |
28 | Bitcoin Pizza | The infamous Papa John's Pizza that cost Laszlo Hanyecz 10,000 Bitcoin when he offered the sum to anyone who bought a pizza for him online and ordered it to his door. |
29 | Black Swan Event | An event that is often unexpected and deviates from the expected result. |
30 | Block | Files that store transaction data which is permanently recorded on a Blockchain. When a new transaction is created on a Blockchain, it is added to a block along with other new transactions. Once a block is added to a Blockchain, it is immutable. |
31 | Block Explorer | An online Blockchain webpage which allows users to browse information about blocks, transactions, balances, and transaction histories. |
32 | Block Height | The number of blocks in the chain between itself and the genesis block. |
33 | Block Reward | Coins awarded by the blockchain network to cryptocurrency miners for each solved block. |
34 | Blockchain | A decentralized, digitized ledger that records transaction information about a cryptocurrency in a chronological order. |
35 | Bollinger Band | A Technical Analysis tool. Volatility bands above and below a simple moving average. The wider the bands are, the more volatile a market is at that time. |
36 | Bounty | A reward posted by a group or individual to incentivize certain work, behavior (such as referrals), or development. |
37 | Breakeven Multiple | The multiple of the current price by which an asset needs to appreciate in order to reach its previous all-time high |
38 | Broker-Dealer | An individual or company that trades securities for itself or on behalf of customers. |
39 | BUIDL | Derived from HODL, a term referring to keeping your heads down and focusing on building your product. |
40 | Bull | A positive trend in prices of a market |
41 | Bull Trap | A false signal that there has been a reversal in a falling price trend. |
42 | Burn | The process of removing coins or tokens from circulation permanently, reducing the total supply. |
43 | Business-to-Business (B2B) | A type of project that is serving enterprise needs. |
44 | Business-to-Business-to-Consumer (B2B2C) | A type of project that utilizes business, groups, or other organizers to reach a larger audience of individual end users. |
45 | Business-to-Consumer (B2C) | A type of project that caters to individual end users. |
46 | Buy The Dip (BTD) | A term used to describe purchasing more of a cryptocurrency when the price falls. |
47 | Buy Wall | A large buy order or many buy orders stacked at a certain price. |
48 | Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) | The characteristic which defines a system that tolerates the class of failures that belong to the Byzantine Generals’ Problem |
49 | Byzantine Generals Problem | A game theoretical situation in which participants in a network need to coordinate consensus in action - in the army analogy, generals must decide if they decide to attack or withdraw, but that their communication or teammates may be sabotaged or traitors |
50 | Candidate Block | A temporary block created by mining nodes using transactions from the memory pool. Each mining node tries to add this candidate block to the blockchain. |