Thread by @sassal0x

0/ List of crypto acronyms:

Consensus/Sybil-control:

PoW - Proof of Work
PoS - Proof of Stake
PoA - Proof of Authority
DPoS - Delegated Proof of Stake
BFT - Byzantine Fault Tolerance
p/dBFT - Practical/Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance
DAG - Directed Acyclic Graph

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1/ Ethereum-related:

DAPP - Decentralized Application
ERC - Ethereum Request for Comments
EIP - Ethereum Improvement Proposal
DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organization
EVM - Ethereum Virtual Machine
WASM - Web Assembly
VDF - Verifiable Delay Function
SC - Smart Contract

2/ Bitcoin-related:

BIP - Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
SegWit - Segregated Witness
SPV - Simple Payment Verification
UTXO - Unspent Transaction Output
LN - Lightning Network
RSK - Risk SC Platform
MW - MimbleWimble
RBF - Replace By Fee
UA(H/S)F - User Activated Hard/Soft Fork

3/ Money-related:

SoV - Store of Value
MoE - Medium of Exchange
UoA - Unit of Account
FIAT - Government-issued currency

4/ Trading:

ETF - Exchange Traded Fund
TA - Technical Analysis
FA - Fundamental Analysis
DCA - Dollar Cost Averaging
OTC - Over the Counter
CEX - Centralized Exchange
DEX - Decentralized Exchange
PnD - Pump and Dump
ICO - Initial Coin Offering
STO - Security Token Offering

5/ Trading continued:

ROI - Return on Investment
SATS - Satoshis
ATH/L - All Time High/Low
MCAP - Market Capilization
BB - Bollinger Bands
MACD - Moving Average Convergence Divergence
RSI - Relative Strength Index
SMA - Simply Moving Average
EMA - Exponential Moving Average

6/ Mining:

CPU - Central Processing Unit
GPU - Graphics Processing Unit
ASIC - Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
HPS - Hashes Per Second

7/ Memes:

HODL - A spelling error
FOMO - Fear of Missing Out
BTFD - Buy The Fucking Dip
DYOR - Do Your Own Research
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt

8/ U.S Regulatory-related:

SEC - Securities & Exchange Commission
FTC - Federal Trade Commision
CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission
FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
DOJ - Department of Justice

9/ U.S Regulatory-related continued:

FinCEN - Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
KYC - Know Your Customer
AML - Anti-money Laundering

10/ Misc:

TXID - Transaction ID
TPS - Transactions Per Second
ZK - Zero Knowledge
P2P - Peer to Peer
ALT - Alternative Cryptocurrency
HF/SF - Hard Fork/Soft Fork
WP - Whitepaper
2FA - Two Factor Authentication
DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service

11/ Misc continued:

IPFS - Interplanetary File System
PKI - Public Key Infrastructure
CT - Crypto Twitter
NONCE - Number Only Once
HW - Hardware Wallet
MCD - Multi-collateral Dai
CDP - Collateralized Debt Position
EEA - Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

12/ Want to add your own? Submit a pull request on the EthHub github page!

github.com/ethhub-io/ethh…

RSK should be 'RootStock SC Platform' - my bad!