Bitcoin
The mysterious creator of Bitcoin.
Satoshi Nakamoto
The creator of Ethereum.
Vitalik Buterin
The measuring unit of the processing power, or calculations per second, of a blockchain network.
Hash Rate
If you're afraid of hackers, it would be safer to keep your crypto in one of these.
Cold Storage Wallet / Hardware Wallet
Founded by the Winklevoss brothers in June 2016, this crypto exchange became the world's first licensed Ether exchange and gets its name from the astrological sign of the twins.
Gemini / Gemini.com
The first block in a blockchain
Genesis Block
This is the currency used on the Ethereum blockchain.
Ether
This is paid to a miner for successfully completing a block.
Transaction Fee / Gas
This new capital investment tool is said to be more secure than ICOs as well as SEC compliant, and can represent a share of a company.
Security Token Offering
Satoshis
It keep records of all blockchain transactions in an incorruptible, open source data bank.
Distributed Ledger
Over $5B was raised in the 2017 boom of this new investment tool...
Initial Coin Offering
This is the process of mining utilizing a remote datacenter with shared processing power often contracted through an online company.
Cloud Mining
A secret piece of data in a block that proves your right to spend crypto from a specific wallet through a cryptographic signature.
Private Key
This city, nicknamed "Crypto Valley", the blockchain version of Silicon Valley, has become one of the hottest areas of crypto investment and entrepreneurial activity, with billions invested in the sector.
Zug, Switzerland
This method of mining requires a computer to solve an incredibly complex mathematical computation and requires a large amount of energy.
This type of contract on the blockchain is supposed to codify, enforce or automate the workings of an organization including governance, fund-raising, operations, spending and expansion...
Decentralized Autonomous Organization
This is the amount of network hashing power a group of miners needs to control a blockchain.
51%
This Tokyo-based cryptoexchange was once the world's largest exchange but a series of security breaches and repeated hacks caused them to shut down in 2014.
Mt. Gox
This organization works to deliver an open, standards-based architecture to accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum, and boasts members such as Intel, Microsoft, JP Morgan chase, BP, and others.
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
This cryptocurrency was created in 2017 when the Bitcoin network forked.
Bitcoin Cash
This standard protocol defines the set of commands that a token should implement on the Ethereum network.
ERC20
This alternative method of mining blocks requires miners to demonstrate their possession of a certain amount of the currency of the network in question.
Proof of Stake
Trading on this darkweb site gained Bitcoin some bad publicity and negatively associated the cryptocurrency with criminal activity.
Silk Road
In 1997, he invented Hashcash, pioneering the first proof-of-work cryptographic system that the Bitcoin blockchain would later be based on.
Adam Back