Blockchain network glossary of terms and EOS resources handout

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A printout of the definitions and resources below were handed out to the attendees of Overview of the EOS Ecosystem. Feel free to reuse these at your own local meetup or to give your friends and family a quick reference sheet.

Glossary
accountability - verifiability leads to improved trustworthiness.
airdrop - distributing tokens to holders of another token.
alignment of interest - creating incentives that benefit the individual and the community.
application-specific blockchain - business logic exists in the core protocol.
asymmetric cryptography - public and private crypto keypair used to establish an identity.
arbitration - an alternative method for resolving disputes.
bandwidth economics - allocation of network resources based on staked tokens.
block - a set of finalized transactions.
block interval - the amount of time between blocks.
block producer - a node that digitally signs blocks to include into the blockchain history.
block reward - the payment that is earned for signing a block.
business logic - defines how data in an application is created, used, and transformed.
CommonAccord - a project creating a standard for representing existing legal codes in software.
community - members of a population that have some common bond or goal.
consensus algorithm - used to enable a distributed system to come to agreement.
consolidation - a phenomena whereby influence centralizes in the hands of a few.
content piracy - accessing content without paying for it.
Daniel Larimer - inventor of DPoS, CTO of block.one, chief architect of EOS.IO software.
decentralized exchange - an exchange protocol built into a blockchain network.
full node - a node in a blockchain network that has a full copy of all the data.
generalized blockchain - blockchain architecture that can implement any business logic.
ICO - a common method for raising funds enabled by tokens.
immutable ledger - a historical record that cannot have information removed from it.
irreversible public record - open blockchains enable this.
internet of value - emergent phenomena enabling value to be transferred via internet.
ipfs - interplanetary file system, a protocol for addressing internet resources by content.
market cap - overall valuation of a financial instrument; applies to blockchain networks.
named accounts - blockchain primitive that allows your address to be a user name.
Nick Szabo - theorized and coined the term “smart contracts.”
nothing at stake - a proof of stake vulnerability.
password key - public/private keypair that is derived from a password string.
peer-to-peer network - digital network where participants directly with each other.
proof-of-brain - distribution mechanism of Steem where content creators earn tokens.
protocol - standard “rules” for communication.
Ricardian contracts - method for digitizing legal contracts
Satoshi Nakamoto - the anonymous inventor of Bitcoin.
shared ownership - a use case DACs enable en masse.
smart contracts - allow the performance of credible transactions without third parties.
source code - code files written by a developer or a team.
stablecoins - tokens that approximate the value of a real world asset.
stake - another word for token or coin.
signature (digital) - a way of cryptographically asserting identity.
tech giants - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Uber, Airbnb, etc.
token - scarce property that is accounted for in a blockchain network.
transactions per second (TPS) - a metric for measuring the throughput of a system.
transparency - wide open for the world to see.
validators - another name for a block producer, miner, witness (all the same thing).
VM - virtual machine. An emulation of a computer system.
wallet - a client for interacting with and protecting private keys.
WebAssembly - a VM/standard for executing fast code on the web.
web of trust - reputation derived from other people vouching for you.