- Bitcoin: with a capitalized B, it stands for the technology, the community, the protocol and software of Bitcoin
- bitcoin: it merely describes the unit of currency
- Altcoins: refers to all the other cryptocurrencies apart from Bitcoin: Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, Monero, Bitcoin Cash, etc.
- Bit: a sub-unit of a bitcoin. One bitcoin has a million bits
- Satoshi: the smallest unit of Bitcoin equaled to 0.00000001 bitcoin and named after Satoshi Nakamoto
- XBT or BTC: abbreviations of bitcoin
- c2c: Crypto to Charities, also Coins to Charities
- Confirmation: the act of confirming a cryptocurrency transaction’s validity, done by miners, shortly after a block has been mined
- Mining: the process of computer hardware running complex mathematical calculations that confirm transactions and enhance the security of the Bitcoin network. Miners are those who manage this hardware
- Recovery phrase or seed keywords: random 12, 18 and 24 words used to derive many pairs of private and public keys
- Cryptography: a branch of mathematics and computer science that gave birth to cryptocurrencies
- Private keys: secret alphanumeric password or number used to send and spend cryptocurrencies
- Public key or Bitcoin address: the alphanumeric address that receives the coins
- Bitcoin wallet: physical or software “purse” or "account" that will be used to hold and store the coins and public and private keys
- Whitepaper: a comprehensive report that details the problem and solution a cryptocurrency ICO project hope to solve
- Transaction ID: an alphanumeric string that has details of a transfer, including the amount sent, the sending/receiving address and the date of transfer
- Blockchain: a universal public ledger of all bitcoin transactions to date
- Cold storage: the idea of storing Bitcoin private keys offline
- HD wallet: a wallet that generates a hierarchical, tree-like structure of several public and private keys right from the root seed key
- Hardware wallet: a unique device that store public and private keys
- Transaction fee: what bitcoin user pays before a transaction is completed
- Block: a group of transactions waiting to be verified
- Pump & Dump: the act of buying and selling bitcoins when the price is favorable
- ICO: Initial Coin Offering
- Hard Fork: software update on a blockchain protocol that’s not backward compatible
- Soft Fork: opposite of Hard Fork
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