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On-Ledger Currency

An on-ledger currency is a currency created and used on a blockchain. All cryptocurrencies are on-ledger currencies.

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Agreement Ledger

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)

B

Bitcoin (BTC) [uppercase]

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)

bitcoin (lowercase)

C

Consensus Protocols

D

Decentralization

Decentralized Application (dApp)

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO, not “the DAO”)

Distributed Ledger

E

ERC-20 Token Standard

ERC-223 Token Standard

ERC-721 Token Standard

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

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G

H

I

Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

Interplanetary File System (IPFS)

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M

Market Capitalization

Multisignature (multisig)

N

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)

O

Off-Ledger Currency

On-Ledger Currency

P

Peer-to-Peer Network (P2P)

Permissioned Ledger

Permissionless Ledgers

Private Blockchain

Private Currency

Proof of Authority

Proof of Stake (PoS)

Proof of Work (PoW)

Public Blockchain

S

Satoshi Nakamoto

Security Token Offering (STO)

Smart Contracts

T

Tokenless Ledger

Transaction Fee

Turing Complete

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