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Glossary

Category description – Bitcoin was invented by a pseudonymous individual or group named Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and is the world’s first enduring cryptocurrency that succeeded where decades of digital cash experiments failed.

Brr

Reading Time: < 1 minute Brr comes from a meme that describes the sound the money printer makes when governments print money. The Money Printer go Brr meme references the

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Blocks

Reading Time: < 1 minute A ledger entry on the blockchain. Each block is timestamped and consists of the most recent transactions verified by the miners.

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Blockchain

Reading Time: < 1 minute A distributed, digital ledger that is maintained by a community of contributors instead of a single entity.

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Bitcoin Obituaries

Reading Time: < 1 minute News articles proclaiming the death of Bitcoin. Since 2010, Bitcoin has been declared dead over 400 times.

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Bitcoin

Reading Time: < 1 minute The King of all Coins Bitcoin is so powerful that the very word actually refers to two things. Bitcoin with a capital ‘B’ refers to

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Bitcoin

Reading Time: < 1 minute The King of all Coins Bitcoin is so powerful that the very word actually refers to two things. Bitcoin with a capital ‘B’ refers to

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BIP

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bitcoin Improvement Proposal. BIPs is the way that the Bitcoin community affects upgrades and changes to the code through communal consensus.

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Bech32

Reading Time: < 1 minute The format of Bitcoin addresses compatible with the SegWit upgrade. See SegWit

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Bearish

Reading Time: < 1 minute Expecting the price to decrease. Bearish investors are pessimistic about the prospects of an asset, and usually sell the asset in expectation of the price

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Bags

Reading Time: < 1 minute A cryptocurrency ‘bag’ is another name for a portfolio.

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