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Crypto Acronyms

Consensus/Sybil-control

  • PoW - Proof of Work
  • PoS - Proof of Stake
  • PoA - Proof of Authority
  • DPoS - Delegated Proof of Stake
  • LPoS - Liquid Proof of Stake
  • BFT - Byzantine Fault Tolerance
  • dBFT - Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance
  • pBFT - Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
  • iBFT - Istanbul Byzantine Fault Tolerance
  • DeFi - Decentralized Finance
  • DAPP - Decentralized Application
  • ERC - Ethereum Request for Comments
  • EIP - Ethereum Improvement Proposal
  • DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organization
  • EVM - Ethereum Virtual Machine
  • WASM - Web Assembly
  • VDF - Verifiable Delay Function
  • SC - Smart Contract
  • NFT - Non-Fungible Token
  • BIP - Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
  • SegWit - Segregated Witness
  • SPV - Simple Payment Verification
  • UTXO - Unspent Transaction Output
  • LN - Lightning Network
  • RSK - RootStock SC Platform
  • MW - MimbleWimble
  • RBF - Replace By Fee
  • UAHF - User Activated Hard Fork
  • UASF - User Activated Soft Fork
  • SoV - Store of Value
  • MoE - Medium of Exchange
  • UoA - Unit of Account
  • FIAT - Government-issued currency

Trading

  • ETF - Exchange Traded Fund
  • TA - Technical Analysis
  • FA - Fundamental Analysis
  • DCA - Dollar Cost Averaging
  • OTC - Over the Counter
  • CEX - Centralized Exchange
  • DEX - Decentralized Exchange
  • PnD - Pump and Dump
  • ICO - Initial Coin Offering
  • STO - Security Token Offering
  • SAFT - Simple Agreement for Future Tokens
  • ROI - Return on Investment
  • SATS - Satoshis
  • ATH/L - All Time High
  • ATL - All Time Low
  • MCAP - Market Capilization
  • BB - Bollinger Bands
  • MACD - Moving Average Convergence Divergence
  • RSI - Relative Strength Index
  • SMA - Simply Moving Average
  • EMA - Exponential Moving Average

Mining

  • CPU - Central Processing Unit
  • GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
  • ASIC - Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
  • FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
  • HPS - Hashes Per Second

Memes

  • HODL - A spelling error
  • FOMO - Fear of Missing Out
  • BTFD - Buy The Fucking Dip
  • DYOR - Do Your Own Research
  • FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
  • SFYL - Sorry For Your Loss
  • SEC - Securities & Exchange Commission
  • FTC - Federal Trade Commision
  • CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • DOJ - Department of Justice
  • FinCEN - Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
  • FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
  • KYC - Know Your Customer
  • AML - Anti-money Laundering

Misc

  • BP - Block Producer
  • TXID - Transaction ID
  • TPS - Transactions Per Second
  • ZK - Zero Knowledge
  • P2P - Peer to Peer
  • ALT - Alternative Cryptocurrency
  • HF - Hard Fork
  • SF - Soft Fork
  • WP - Whitepaper
  • 2FA - Two Factor Authentication
  • DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service
  • IPFS - Interplanetary File System
  • PKI - Public Key Infrastructure
  • CT - Crypto Twitter
  • NONCE - Number Only Once
  • HW - Hardware Wallet
  • MCD - Multi-collateral Dai
  • CDP - Collateralized Debt Position
  • EEA - Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
  • HTLC - Hashed Timelock Contract
  • VRF - Verfiable Random Function
  • DAG - Directed Acyclic Graph

Security and Privacy

  • SNARKs - Succinct Non-Interactive ARguments of Knowledge
  • STARKs - Scalable Transparent ARguments of Knowledge
  • MPC - Multi-Party Computation

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