THE LANGUAGE OF CRYPTO

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Bitcoin’s scheduled halving of the block subsidy every 210,000 blocks.

A rule change that can make blocks valid under the new rules but invalid under the old ones.

A dedicated device designed to generate, protect and use signing keys without exposing them to a general-purpose computer.

The number of hash calculations performed per second by mining equipment or a mining network.

A hierarchical deterministic wallet that derives a tree of keys from shared seed material.

A collateralized position’s safety metric; in Aave, liquidation-adjusted collateral value divided by debt value.

Holding onto your crypto instead of selling when the market gets noisy.

Hope with the volume turned up: crypto slang for optimism running ahead of the evidence.

A wallet whose signing capability is available on an internet-connected system.

A hashed time-locked contract: a conditional payment combining a secret-hash requirement with a timeout.

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