Welcome to the wide, wonderful, crazy, and rapidly developing ecosystem of cryptocurrency. This is a live document, and I will update the wordlist over time. If you have suggestions for words you think should be added, drop me a line or a comment below, and I will get them added. Scroll alphabetically or Ctrl-F (Windows) or ⌘-F (Mac) in your browser to search.
2FA - Two-Factor Authentication - If you aren't using this, start NOW. This is a way to verify who you are through two methods, the first being your username/password, and the second is a time-based token on your phone or other digital device that you possess. This is superior to using SMS/text messaging, which is vulnerable to a SIM-SWAP ATTACK.
4 - Four - "CZ" Changpeng Zhou, the head of Binance, tweeted that this is a code for FUD. This is his code for ignoring the information that someone else has tweeted/reported.
51% Attack - Because the blockchain is a series of transactions created by computational work, if the network participants had more than half off the miners agreeing on what the 'correct' set of transaction data was, they could change what the agreed-upon data was, but only as long as they kept mining the imposter chain. Andreas describes how this is impossible on Bitcoin in 2.25 mins here. Listen more than once.
AirDrop - Many cryptocurrency projects distribute the tokens across a network of users in order to get supply and users into the market. This is free money from the sky. Only Shitcoins do this. This is like a drug dealer giving out a free sample to get someone hooked. Coins of value, such as Bitcoin, require work or exchange of value in order to acquire them.
Andreas Antonopoulos - An early bitcoin evangelist. His YouTube videos are worth watching. He has written many books, and has a website.
Bag Holders - The people who purchased something that went to zero, and are left holding a bag of worthless items.
BIP - Bitcoin Improvement Proposal - Incremental changes to bitcoin that are submitted by the community and included if they have enough merit and support.
Bitcoin - The first peer-to-peer electronic cash system that worked. Created in 2008 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Ultimately this will become the world's digital currency, although the timeline is unclear. Most Bitcoiners do not care how long it takes. Also referred to as Bitcoin Core and Nakamoto Consensus. What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin Fixes This - A meme/phrase used to show how failures in the current world system are improved upon by transitioning to a global, immutable, permissionless sound money.
Blockchain - A series of transactions recorded one after another in unique units (blocks). Each block builds off (and includes a piece of) the previous block, which prevents anyone from changing the record of prior transactions because to make a change, you would have to create every future block from that change forward, and the computational resources required make this unfeasible.
Blockchain Explorer - Web-based tool that allows looking into transactions on a particular blockchain. These are blockchain-specific (e.g., Etherscan is for Ethereum). Mempool 👀
Blocksize War - circa 2017, the bitcoin community argued over increasing the size of the blocks that make up the blockchain. The original chain, which were the small-blockers, won and the chain forked to create a new larger blocksize chain, which is called Bitcoin Cash (BCH). BCH itself was subsequently forked by Faketoshi into Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision.
Burn - to get hurt/rekt/rugged. Also a way to destroy tokens intentionally, perhaps built into the protocol, such as was created by an Ethereum upgrade.
CBDCs / Central Bank Digital Currencies - Government-created digital dollars. This will allow the state to control money more easily. This is a way to enable the state to have more control over citizens' lives. These are already being used in China to punish citizens who 'misbehave' in the eyes of the state.
CeFi - Centralized Finance. Also CEX - Centralized Exchange - This label came after DeFi, and it means trusting a business to manage your crypto. See Celsius, BlockFi, Voyager, FTX.
Celsius - A crypto lending firm that allowed customers to deposit their crypto, theoretically for the company to lend out for a yield, realistically performing fraudulent transactions, and it operated as a hedge fund. They went bankrupt and rekt those who trusted the business (Yours truly was one of about 600,000 customers).
Cold Storage - Cold Wallet - This is a bitcoin private key that you keep offline. In other words, this device is not connected to the internet and therefore has a lower risk of theft/hacking. Hardware Wallets are a way to accomplish this.
Counter-party Risk - When you trust another party (person or company) to take care of your assets or interests. Take great caution in evaluating how and when you do this. I got rekt by Celsius by trusting them. This is the opposite of self-custody.
Crypto/Cryptocurrency - The technological evolution of money into a digital form that can be traded across the internet and verified by checking the ledger of transactions on a blockchain. The transactions on the blockchain are between wallets or addresses, which are encoded using cryptography. Bitcoin was the first digital cryptocurrency to succeed.
Cryptography - Securing information using encryption technology, such as a private and public keyset. This was first popularized online with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), a tool that allowed someone to send an email message that could only be unlocked/decoded if you held the private key associated with a public key that had previously been shared and used to encode the message. Bitcoin and subsequent cryptocurrencies incorporate this idea of using a publicly shared key and a privately held key.
DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organization. A set of rules created in computer code to run a company (or other enterprise) online. Often associated with a token, where holders of the token have the ability to vote on how the organization proceeds.
The DAO Hack - Ethereum's blockchain was exploited, and a user made off with $60 million in funds (which was a significant portion of the network's value at the time). The Ethereum Foundation decided to roll back the blockchain to before that transaction and split the chain into a new chain, effectively undoing the undesired transaction. The original chain was relabeled Ethereum Classic, and the forked chain was called Ethereum. The fact that the chain was edited by the rulers of Ethereum is antithetical to the ethos of Bitcoin, and many Bitcoiners speak derisively of this decision. Ethereum Classic continues to trade on exchanges.
DAPPS - Decentralized APPlications. Started with Ethereum. You connect your browser wallet extension to an online program to execute functions. Some are nefarious. Be careful.
DCA - Dollar-Cost Averaging - This is a way to invest where you steadily allocate a small amount of capital into something over time. This removes the emotional swing of fear/greed of buying too much or too little at the price because the purchase executes at the interval you choose. In traditional investing, this may be once a week or month. In the 24/7 time of Bitcoin, it can be every week, day, hour, or minute. This is a TradFi investment technique.
Decentralize - Remove the headquarters or leader. Bitcoin as a network has no ruler or leader. There is no ruler to shut down, or headquarters to attack. Any participants can join, and will therefore expand the network, voluntarily, at any time.
Decentralized Identity - Decentralized Identifier (DID) - This enables internet users to create a verifiable, self-sovereign digital identity. It's a unique identifier that can be created, controlled, and maintained by the entity it refers to, whether that's an individual, organization, or thing. One of the key aspects of DIDs is that they don't rely on any centralized authority or intermediary to be effective, unlike traditional forms of digital identifiers (like federated accounts or email addresses). Instead, they use cryptographic techniques to allow for secure and direct control over identity. In addition to proving unique ownership over digital material/content, this will allow for selective permissions (ie I am old enough to buy alcohol, but not share exact age, or allow access to gated information using your DID/wallet).
DeFi - Decentralized Finance. This is the future of finance. Transactions execute based on satisfying parameters in the blockchain code, not upon the whims of people in control. It is faster, cheaper, and more efficient than TradFi. It is still young, still being developed, and there are not many users yet. There are also scams. This is being built in front of us while we are participating. Be careful. The biggest example of DeFi is UniSwap.
Degen - Degenerate - Degenerate Gambler. A person who takes risky bets. The word is transitioning from derogatory to endearing.
Diamond Hands - 💎🙌. aka HODL. "I'm not selling." Hold onto your investment position despite the volatility or the FUD. This is the opposite of Paper Hands, Lettuce Hands, or Weak Hands.
Ethereum - The first Smart Contract Blockchain, started in 2014 by Bitcoiners including Vitalik Buterin, Charles Hoskinson, and Gavin Andresen. Charles moved on to create Cardano, and Gavin created Polkadot. Ethereum moved from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake in Sept 2022, but the chain is still evolving.
ETF - Exchange Traded Fund. This is a tradfi investment vehicle. Most of these essentially a representative amount of a basket of stocks or other assets. I think of them like a mutual fund, except the ETFs trade all day long at various prices and the mutual funds only settle at the end of the trading day. The SPOT Bitcoin ETFs don't have a basket, they simply have a representative amount of bitcoin for each share. ETFs have a management fee associated with them, and they are for-profit vehicles of the companies that issue them. All of this information is required to be disclosed by the regulating agency (SEC in the US).
ERC-20 - This is the standard implemented as an upgrade into the Ethereum blockchain that allows for creation of tokens. More at Ethereum.org.
Exit Liquidity - When prior holders or early investors in a project sell their tokens into the market. If this happens due to a lock-up period expiring, there may be a large supply entering the market at the same time, which often causes drops in price. This is not unique to digital assets but is how traditional and venture capital investments work as well.
Faketoshi - Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who is pretending to be Satoshi Nakamoto despite significant evidence to the contrary. He creates many lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions and is not a nice human.
Few - Crypto slang meaning "Only a few people understand." Also sometimes a misspelling of "phew!"
Fiat - Something declared by governmental decree. In this space, it is usually short for fiat currency, which is central bank-created currency.
FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out - This emotion may encourage you to YOLO into an asset. Be cautious that you do not get rekt.
FOSS - Free Open Source Software. This is computer code published online for anyone to review, critique, add to, etc. The main repository for this code is GitHub. Also, Greg Foss, a Canadian Bitcoin Maxi active on Twitter.
Fork - Forked - A change in the rules of the blockchain protocol. Usually this is referencing a hard-fork, which means all future transactions are no longer compatible with the original programming. A small change, which doesn't break compatibility is a soft-fork.
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt - These are the emotions that may steer you away from an investment decision. Use this to help evaluate your decision before you YOLO.
Fungible - Interchangeable for another item with no real difference in use/utility. Examples would be a coin or a USB cable. The items can be unique (serial numbers on dollar bills) or numbered satoshis (ordinals).
Game Theory - Expect each actor to operate in their best interest, how would they proceed? Bitcoin and other cryptos are aligned so that participants are incentivized to work towards the common good, and there are diminished or no rewards if you act contrary to the protocol.
GM/GN - Good Morning, Good Night.
Governance Token - A digital asset that allows the holder to vote in the rules or decisions of the protocol or DAO that the token is connected with.
Halving/Halvening - Every 210,000 blocks (which is approximately every 4 years) the supply issuance of Bitcoin is cut in half. The issuance periods are referred to as an epoch. At time of publishing (summer 2023), Bitcoin issues 6.25 bitcoin as a block reward to the miner that solves the block. Halvening has become a word to indicate the event of the supply halving.
Hash Function - *A computer program that will take an input, and create a short unique digital summary. The same input will always generate the same digital summary, however any single change in the input will generate an entirely different summary. This is extremely difficult to reverse. This is used to verify authenticity of a digital file. If the creator of the file displays the hash (also called checksum) of a file, someone can verify their copy or download of the file is the same as the original file by running their copy of through the hash program. There are numerous hash algorithms used in computing. Bitcoin uses SHA-256, Litecoin & Dogecoin use Scrypt, Ethereum uses Keccak-256.*
(As an example, this paragraph's SHA256 hash between the *'s is: ab2284f8914641b3bcfc7186c4d2d747ae540874eda6031d3064ec368d145c98 and is b14bb1d60bc37798e5eb7c130fe65f3d67819ebcc19a7ae81c963c2f4f5890c2 if I misspell numerous as numerus. Try it)
Hashing/ Hashpower - A measure of the amount of computing power of the machines (miners) racing to guess the correct answer to solve the hash function on a Proof of Work blockchain. Bitcoin's hashpower has been growing steadily over time as more people around the world race to solve the block first. Measured in hashes per second.
HFSP - Have Fun Staying Poor. (Because you didn't buy some coin, usually a shitcoin.)
HODL - Hang On for Dear Life. Original post typo of HOLD that became a crypto meme.
Hyperbitcoinization - When the world rapidly progresses to using bitcoin (the suddenly part of 'slowly, then all at once'). This is the steep part of the S curve of adoption.
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
Inscriptions - Data written into the Bitcoin blockchain. These are words, pictures, audio files, and even code snippets that create tokens. Related: Ordinals. More here.
Lightning Network - A Bitcoin Settlement Layer. This network solves the speed problem of Bitcoin, and has individuals passing around small quantities of Bitcoin in a parallel chain that settles back to the bitcoin base chain. This is how you can pay for coffee with zero (near zero) transaction fees.
Litecoin - One of the first, if not the first, copies of Bitcoin. This was not a fork, it was a brand-new chain. Charlie Lee created Litecoin by changing a few pieces of the code of Bitcoin (remember it is Open Source) such as quadrupling the number of coins (84M), 1/4 the the transaction time, and the hash algorithm. Litecoin did have a fair launch (no pre-mine), similar to Bitcoin. Charlie Lee was actively mining it, and wound up with a significant quantity, and he sold it all at nearly the top of the market, which caused many people to be suspicious. However, he pre-announced his sale on Twitter and he only sold because people were worried about his quantity of tokens. Litecoin is still being developed, and Charlie works on development. The Lightning Network was implemented on Litecoin before Bitcoin.
Maxi - Maximalist - Someone who believes there can be only one solution, frequently used as Bitcoin Maxi, meaning Bitcoin can be the only blockchain, but sometimes Ethereum Maxis are seen.
Meme - Narrative or Joke that explains or binds the community together.
Memecoin - Cryptocurrency whose value and popularity are based on pop-culture enthusiasm. Many were created soley for the joke. Example: any crypto with an animal theme, such as a dog or frog (Doge, Shiba, Floki, Pepe).
Miner - a person who participates in or a machine that is guessing hashes to solve the block which includes the transactions in a Proof of Work blockchain. Mining can be on a personal or enterprise scale. The hashpower resources are generally pooled.
MultiSig - Multiple Signatures required to complete or sign a transaction, this can be used to secure a digital wallet by geographically distributing the private keys.
Non-Fungible Token - NFT - A truly unique item. In the digital world, these could be images or tickets, and the blockchain can be used to verify ownership or provenance of the token. NFTs are not unique across chains (ie owning a Solana or Ethereum NFT doesn't mean you own it on Bitcoin).
NGMI - Not Gonna Make It. Derogatory statement towards someone who doesn't understand.
NGU - Number Go Up - Bitcoin has been referred to as NGU technology. Why is the price going up? There are many reasons, but ultimately it boils down to: steadily decreasing supply, and increasing demand. Demand is going to continue to increase as people learn about the technology, which will cause the price to go up, which will attract attention, which will drive people to learn about the technology, which will increase demand, which will cause the price to go up, ad infinitum. What is your Bitcoin Number?
NodeRunners - Users that run/maintain a Bitcoin node. The nodes keep a copy of the blockchain, and essentially comprise the network. Maintaining a copy of the blockchain allows noderunners to check that a transaction is valid.
Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins - NYKNYC - If you don't control the the private key/ seed phrase of your crypto, then you are relying on someone else to do this. Recognize who you are trusting more than yourself to be responsible for your wealth.
NOSTR - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted via Relays - a decentralized social media protocol which is likely going to replace Twitter, Telegram, and other social applications. The protocol is open and actively being developed, and clients running on the protocol can interact with it in different ways. You publish data to relays, and your data is not owned or controlled by Twitter/Facebook/Snapchat etc. (Think about how different browsers interact with web information in different ways.)
OG - Original Gangster - These are people that have been around in the space 'for a long time.' There's no real date for this, but certainly anyone that has stayed in Bitcoin since 2012 or earlier, and probably even 2014 or earlier.
On-chain - referring to something that happened on the blockchain vs a layer 2, such as Lightning.
Open Source - Free Open Source Software. This is computer code published online for anyone to review, critique, add to, etc. This is the gold standard of internet safety because you (or software engineers) can review code, see how/what it does, ensure it isn't nefarious, and even run it on your own machine. The main repository for this code is GitHub. (aka FOSS) Notable examples: Linux, Bitcoin, Sparrow Wallet
Orange-Pill - Convincing someone about the problems that Bitcoin solves. This is a difficult task.
Ordinals - Assigning number theory to the unique satoshis on the blockchain. Closely related to Inscriptions, and being traded as NFTs on Bitcoin.
Paper Bitcoin - This is the claim or duplication of bitcoin. If you are trusting a third party to be the custodian of your bitcoin, this other entity owes you bitcoin. They are responsible to give it back to you at a later date. In the meantime, they may lend it out or invest it, and this essentially duplicates the value of the bitcoin. This is counter-party risk, and you should avoid it. If you have a claim on bitcoin, you do not own it. Take self-custody ASAP! NYKNYC!
Paper Wallet - One of the original ways to create a pair of Bitcoin addresses (private key and public key) was with a paper wallet. You use software to generate an address to share and an address to keep, and these have a corresponding QR code. Two issues with this are how to use change addresses if you don't spend all the bitcoin, and some of the online paper wallet generators were scams. Also, unless you took all your equipment offline in order to generate these wallets, your address is vulnerable to hackers.
Pepe - Internet meme about a cartoon frog which has morphed into numerous things, including a memecoin. Go down the rabbit hole at Wikipedia. 'Feels good, man!' See also RarePepes - some of the first ever NFTs on the Bitcoin Blockchain.
Permissionless - Unlike in traditional finance, where there are gatekeepers or barriers erected (often government-mandated) to prevent certain people from executing a transaction, there are no barriers to using Bitcoin or crypto. Simply download the code or wallet and off you go!
Ponzi - Financial scheme where new investors are used to pay prior investors instead of generating income off the invested capital. Named for Charles Ponzi.
Pool - Miners often participate in a collective in order to increase their chance of winning. Different pools have different rules on how the block reward is distributed to the participants, but they are usually roughly distributed on a percentage of hashpower contribution.
Pre-Mine - Starting a coin or blockchain with some amount of tokens given to investors and/or founders. ALMOST everything in the crypto space has a premine. Bitcoin and Litecoin are two exceptions. Bitcoin forks such as BSV, BCH, would not have a pre-mine. All Ethereum forks have a premine because Eth had a premine (Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Ethereum PoW)
Public Key - This is the address to your digital wallet that you can share with others. Each Bitcoin private key can generate numerous, and very different public keys, so unless you combine outputs, anyone viewing the blockchain would not know what you control.
Privacy Token - Despite what you may have heard, Bitcoin and Ethereum are not private, they are public blockchains, and anyone can use them. A Blockchain Explorer can track the transactions. Monero, Dash, and Zcash were cryptocurrencies created specifically to prevent tracking of who holds the coins.
Private Key - The information you need to confirm or sign a transaction. You can use a hardware wallet to produce these. Also called Seed Phrase. Protect the privacy this at all costs! This information is used to derive a public key.
Proof of Stake (PoS) - Consensus mechanism to validate transactions based on pledging existing collateral to operate in the best interest of the protocol. Ethereum uses PoS after converting from PoW in Sept 2022. Misbehaving validators can be slashed. An Ethereum upgrade (Shanghai/Shapella) in April 2023 allowed users that had staked Ethereum to serve as validators to withdraw the staked Eth tokens.
Proof of Work (PoW) - Consensus mechanism to validate transactions based on computational effort. Bitcoin uses PoW. PoW is most easily recognized as the blockchain with the most blocks (which took computational work to create) is the legitimate one. Having a longer chain with more work behind it reduces the chance of a 51% Attack.
PSBT - Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction - This is a trustless way to interact on the Bitcoin blockchain by initiating the first half of a transaction that you agree with, and another party agrees with this and signs to complete the transaction. Ordinals can be traded this way.
Rekt - Wrecked. Your position is down, or ruined, or liquidated. See also Rug-Pull.
Rug-Pull aka rugged - The founders of a coin, blockchain, token, NFT project run-away with your money, usually leaving the project abandoned and purchasers are left holding the bag.
Satoshi Nakamoto - The pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. Hasn't been heard from since 2011. Presumed dead by many. Definitely NOT Craig Wright.
Sat/Sats - Abbreviation of Satoshis - Bitcoin is divisible to the 8th decimal place (100 Millionth). 0.00000001 Using so many zeros is onerous, and so that individual unit became known as a Sat, in honor of Satoshi Nakamoto.
Sat Comma Standard - A method of commas after the decimal which allows visualizing satoshis for easier reading by humans: 0.01,250,000 = 1.25million satoshis. Easier to read than 0.012500000 More Here.
Slash - To remove or reduce supply (staked protocols can take away your reward or your staked position if you act in opposition to the protocol). Related: Game Theory.
Seed Phrase - Usually a set of 12 or 24 words which, when combined, generate a hash that computes to create a private key.
SegWit - Segregated Witness - This allows some of the data in a Bitcoin transaction to be set aside at a lower fee rate. This allowed more information included into a bitcoin transaction, and was a compromise to increasing the Bitcoin block size during the BlockSize War.
Self-Custody - Bitcoin allows you to take ownership of your digital asset. You should spend the time to do this. This ability is one of the primary reasons that Bitcoin will become the global dominant currency. This avoids Counter-Party Risk. See: NYKNYC.
SHA-256 - The Hash algorithm used by Bitcoin blockchain.
Shitcoin - 💩 Coin - Any currency that is not Bitcoin. Clones or forks of bitcoin, such as Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (BSV) are shitcoins. DogeCoin and Shiba are great examples.
SIM-Swap Attack - Nefarious actors convince your cell phone service provider that they are you, and they switch your incoming calls and texts to a new SIM chip (the small chip in your phone that tells the cell phone network where to route the calls). You don't know this has happened, and this is what makes SMS/text verification a weak security practice (see 2FA). Talk to your cell service provider about putting a lock on this option TODAY if you haven't already.
Stablecoin - a cryptocurrency whose value is tied to the price of a fiat currency, such as the US Dollar. Examples: Tether (USDT), Circle (USDC), Gemini (GUSD), Binance (BUSD) and the failed Terra (TUSD).
Steady Lads - When Terra/Luna was blowing up in May 2022, the CEO, Do Kwon, tweeted 'Deploying more capital - steady lads,' in an effort to reassure investors/believers. However, the company went to zero within the next few days, and ~$40B of valuation evaporated as users fled the failed protocol.
Token - ownership of an item on the blockchain. Ethereum made creating tokens extremely easy, and the vast majority of 'cryptocurrencies' tracked at places like CoinMarketCap or CoinGecko are actually ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum. Even really large market cap currencies like Shiba Inu and Pepe are tokens on Ethereum.
Tokenomics - Analysis of who has what percentage of the token representing a crypto project--in other words, how/when can prior holders or pre-miners sell their tokens? Is there a lock-up period where they are not allowed? What sort of schedule do these unlock. How are the tokens used and/or burned.
Touch Grass - Get off your device, go outside, and enjoy nature.
TradFi - Traditional Finance (Legacy banks and brokers)
Transaction Fee - What the user pays to have their transaction included into the blockchain. This fee varies based on market demand for the blockspace.
Two-Factor Authentication - see 2FA
UASF - User Activated Soft Fork. The users of the protocol (Node Runners), proposed changes (upgrades) to the protocol that would fore the miners to follow along in order to stay on the network. Bitcoin essentially won the BlockSize War by implementing the SegWit upgrade but not the subsequent SegWit2x protocol upgrade, which would have further increased the size of a bitcoin block transaction data.
UTXO - Unspent Transaction Output. This is the leftover or change that is in your wallet after sending a bitcoin transaction.
VPN - Virtual Private Network - Digital connection that lets you tunnel through the internet and appear to be logging in from somewhere else in the world. If you are using a free VPN, you are the product (ie, don't do this).
Wallet - The way to access where your coins are stored. Can be hot (connected to the internet) or cold (offline). Cold wallet is more secure, think of this as your long-term savings account, whereas a hot wallet is your spending money. You can have as many of each as you want to try and keep track of.
WAGMI - We're All Gonna Make It. Supporting statement about an optimistic future.
Wassie - What is he? Cartoon penguin/platypus creatures used as profile/profile pics on Twitter. These accounts have their own slang language. (smol=small, shid=shit, iwo=IMHO) Notable Twitter accounts: WassieLawyer, inversebrah, ZachXBT
Web2 - This is the internet as you have known it for the last 20 years or so. You go to a website (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, SnapChat, Twitter, TikTok) and post content on their website that other people can access. That private entity owns your content now. They are generating revenue by driving clicks/more users and selling ads. Maybe they share this revenue with you, maybe not. They can kick you off their platform if you do not follow their rules.
Web3 - This is the evolution of Web2. This evolution is incomplete. Entrepreneurs and computer programmers are building this out, right now, to create the next generation of what people will do online. One of the overarching goals is to shift ownership to the content creators. Thanks to the idea of Blockchain, Decentralization, and DAOs, we have a new building blocks to create tools and experiences that can be built online.
Web5 - This is more than Web2+Web3. This is a decentralized identity stack being created at Block (the company formerly known as Square).
White Paper - The Bitcoin White Paper was published by Satoshi Nakamoto to the Cypherpunk mailing list on October 31, 2008. The Bitcoin network went live until January 1, 2009.
Xpub - A master public key from which many Bitcoin public keys can be derived (legacy addresses starting with a "1").
Ypub - A master public key to generate SegWit address (those that start with "3").
Zpub - A master public key for native SegWit addresses (those that start with "bc1").
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