Blockchain and Network Abbreviations
BIP — Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
BTM — Automatic Teller Machine for Bitcoin
DAO — Decentralized Autonomous Organization
DPoS — Delegated Proof of Stake
EEA — Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
EIP — Ethereum Improvement Proposal
ERC — Ethereum Request for Comments
TRC — Tron Request for Comments
EVM — Ethereum Virtual Machine
FA — Fundamental Analysis
LN — Lightning Network
MACD — Moving Average Convergence Divergence
MoE — Medium of Exchange
P2P — Peer to Peer
PoA — Proof of Authority
PoB — Proof of Burn
PoD — Proof of Developer
PoS — Proof of Stake
PoW — Proof of Work
SC — Smart Contract
SegWit — Segregated Witness
SoV — Store of value
TA — Technical Analysis or Trend Analysis
UoA — Unit of Account
UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
WP — Whitepaper
YTD — Year to Date
Technical Abbreviations
2FA — Two Factor Authentication
Addy — Address
API — Application Programming Interface
ASIC — Application Specific Integrated Circuit
BFA — Brute Force Attack
Bech32 — Bitcoin address format (also known as bc1 addresses)
CPU — Central Processing Unit
BFT — Byzantine Fault Tolerance
DAG — Directed Acyclic Graph
DAPP or dApp — Decentralized Application
DDoS — Distributed Denial of Service
DEVCON — Developers Conference
GPU — Graphical Processing Unit
IPFS — Interplanetary Files System
PKI — Public Key Infrastructure
Multi-sig — Multi-Signature
NONCE — Number Used Only Once
SHA-256 — Secure Hash Acronym (256-bit)
WWDC — Worldwide Developers Conference
Financial Abbreviations
AML — Anti-Money Laundering
ATH — All-Time High
ATL — All-Time Low
ALT or Altcoin — Alternative Cryptocurrency (cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin)
CEX — Centralized Exchange
CMC — Coinmarketcap
DAICO — Decentralized Autonomous Initial Coin Offering
DCA — Dollar Cost Averaging
DeFi — Decentralized Finance
DEX — Decentralized Exchange
DLT — Distributed Ledger Technology
ERC-20 — Token standard for Ethereum
ERC-721 — Token standard for NFT (non-fungible tokens)
ETF — Exchange-Traded Fund
ETP — Exchange-Traded Product
FIAT — Conventional government-issued currency (e.g. US Dollar, Euro)
IBO — Initial Bounty Offering
ICO — Initial Coin Offering
IDO — Initial Dex Offering
IEO — Initial Exchange Offering
ITO — Initial Token Offering
mBTC — Millibitcoin (0.001 BTC)
MCAP — Market Capitalization
PnD — Pump-and-Dump scheme
OTC — Over the Counter
SATS — Satoshis (the smallest denomination of a Bitcoin: 0.00000001 BTC)
STO — Securities Token Offering
TPS — Transactions Per Second
Tx — Transaction
TxID — Transaction Identification
uBTC — MicroBitcoin (0.000001 BTC)
UXTO — Unspent Transaction
Conversational Cryptocurrency Abbreviations
BUIDL — “Build” (purposeful misspelling for ironic meaning)
FOMO — Fear of Missing Out
HODL — Hold On for Dear Life (purposeful misspelling of “HOLD”)
BTD or BTFD — Buy The Dip
DYOR — Do Your Own Research
FUD — Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
FUDster — A person who spreads Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
ELI5 — Explain It Like I’m 5
JOMO — Joy of Missing Out
KYC — Know Your Customer
Lambo — Lamborghini (cryptocurrency term for getting rich)
TLT — Think Long Term
OCO — One Cancels the Other
AMA — Ask Me Anything
REKT — “Wrecked” (meaning major losses)
TOR — The Onion Router (one who sends anonymous data)
CT — Crypto Twitter
Abbreviations for Regulatory Commissions
SEC — Securities and Exchange Commission
FTC — Federal Trade Commission
CFTC — Commodity Futures Trading Commission
FDIC — Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
DOJ — Department of Justice
