Bitcoin Glossary

[oleganza]

While writing documentation to CoreBitcoin (Objective-C implementation) I tend to explain some terms over and over again. To avoid repetition, I decided to come up with one more-or-less complete glossary of all technical Bitcoin terms from "difficulty" to "scriptPubSig". This glossary immediately answers a lot of questions that I myself had while learning how Bitcoin works. I hope it will greatly help newcomers to understand what people are talking about.

Here's the latest version of the glossary:
https://github.com/oleganza/CoreBitcoin/blob/master/GLOSSARY.md

Feel free to comment or even edit it on Github if you find mistakes. Thanks!

[NewLiberty]

AWESOME, thanks for posting this!

Some things to consider....


No entry for Silk Road, Tor, .  I guess you are taking the High Road on that?

51% attack is distinct from double-spend.

There are many examples of double-spend type attacks (spawning multiple instances of virtual machines from the same wallet and sending the same coins from each creating a race condition to be resolved in the proof of work, would be another type).

51% is more a takeover of the mining authority, which can (among other things) enable double-spending, but it is much more than that.

[The 4ner]

Great post! Now we can use this as a resource for noobs to learn the basics. You should post this on the Noobs section so they can take advantage of this.

Thanks!