Public Key
A key used in asymmetric cryptography that is meant for use by the public, and can be shared by its assigned actor. Public keys are used to encrypt data and verify messages. A public key is mathematically linked to a private key.
Quantum Computing
A form of computing that operates using particles that function in superposition. These particles operate as qubits instead of bits, meaning that they can take the value of 1, 0 or both simultaneously.
Race attack
When two transactions are created using the same funds at the same time with the goal of conducting a double-spend event.
Ransomware
A type of malware that allows an attacker to take over a computer and threaten to destroy or reveal files unless a ransom is paid.
Rekt
A slang term in crypto describing when someone has their position liquidated or when a system suffers from a catastrophic failure.
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
A technical indicator used to measure market momentum and identify overbought or oversold conditions.
Resistance
A Technical Analysis (TA) term used to describe when a price that is increasing runs into sell pressure.
Return on Investment (ROI)
The ratio between net profit and net costs, which is used as a measure to assess the efficiency of an investment.
Rewards
Financial incentives that are distributed to validators for securing the network
Roadmap
A business planning technique that estimates and lays out short and long term goals on a flexible timeline.
Routing Attack
An attack that occurs at the Internet Service Provider level and is designed to affect uptime or participation in a web-enabled system.
Rug pull
When the development team for a project suddenly abandons it and sells or removes all liquidity for the projects token.
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Satoshi
The smallest unit of a Bitcoin equal to one-hundred-millionth of a Bitcoin or 0.00000001 BTC.
Satoshi Nakamoto
The pseudonym of the creator(s) of the Bitcoin protocol and whitepaper.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The U.S. governmental agency that is responsible for regulating securities markets.
Security Audit
An analysis that is conducted to evaluate how secure a system, smart contract or blockchain is against attacks or technical failure.
Seed phrase
Also known as a mnemonic phrase; a set of words (conventionally 12 or 24) that are used to generate private and public key pairs.
Segregated Witness (SegWit)
A process that allowed more transactions to fit within one block by separating transaction signatures from bitcoin transactions.
Selfish Mining
When a miner withholds and releases blocks in a strategic manner in order to gain a competitive advantage over the network.
Sell Wall
A large number or amount of sell orders at a specific price level on the order book for an asset.
Sentiment
The prevailing attitude of a community towards a specific cryptocurrency or financial market.
Sentry
a blockchain node that is also an edge server; typically, sentries do not participate as validator nodes, and exist as a layer of defense against attacks, malformed transactions or blocks, and other deformities on the upper levels of the OSI model.
Server
a computer process that provides resources, data, or services to other computers or clients over a network.
Server daemon
also referred to as a “daemon” — a server that runs in the background such that a human actor need not maintain an active user session in order to maintain the server’s execution workflow.
