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[51 percent attack]: /en/developer-guide#term-51-attack "The ability of someone controlling a majority of hashing power to revise transactions history and prevent new transactions from confirming"
[accidental fork]: /en/developer-guide#term-accidental-fork "When two or more blocks have the same block height, forking the block chain. Happens occasionally by accident"
[addresses]: /en/developer-guide#term-address "A 20-byte hash formatted as a P2PKH or P2SH Bitcoin Address"
[address]: /en/developer-guide#term-address "A 20-byte hash formatted as a P2PKH or P2SH Bitcoin Address"
[base58Check]: /en/developer-reference#term-base58check "The method used in Bitcoin for converting 160-bit hashes into Bitcoin addresses"
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[confirmed transactions]: /en/developer-guide#term-confirmation "Transactions included in a block currently on the block chain"
[confirmation]: /en/developer-guide#term-confirmation "The number of blocks which would need to be modified to remove or modify a transaction"
[confirmations]: /en/developer-guide#term-confirmation "The number of blocks which would need to be modified to remove or modify a transaction"
[consensus]: /en/developer-guide#term-consensus "When several nodes (usually most nodes on the network) all have the same blocks in their locally-validated block chain."
[consensus rules]: /en/developer-guide#term-consensus-rules "The block validation rules that full nodes follow to stay in consensus with other nodes."
[denomination]: /en/developer-guide#term-denomination "bitcoins (BTC), bitcents (cBTC), millibits (mBTC), microbits (uBTC), or satoshis"
[difficulty]: /en/developer-guide#term-difficulty "A number corresponding to the target threshold which indicates how difficult it will be to find the next block"
[double spend]: /en/developer-guide#term-double-spend "Attempting to spend the same satoshis which were spent in a previous transaction"
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[extended public key]: /en/developer-guide#term-extended-public-key "A public key extended with the chain code so that it can derive child public keys"
[escrow contract]: /en/developer-guide#term-escrow-contract "A contract in which the spender and receiver store satoshis in a multisig output until both parties agree to release the satoshis"
[fiat]: /en/developer-guide#term-fiat "National currencies such as the dollar or euro"
[fork]: /en/developer-guide#term-fork "When two or more blocks have the same block height, forking the block chain."
[genesis block]: /en/developer-guide#term-genesis-block "The first block created; also called block 0"
[hard fork]: /en/developer-guide#term-hard-fork "A permanent divergence in the the block chain, commonly occurs when non-upgraded nodes can't validate blocks created by upgraded nodes following newer consensus rules."
[hardened extended private key]: /en/developer-guide#term-hardened-extended-private-key "A private key whose corresponding public key cannot derive child keys"
[HD protocol]: /en/developer-guide#term-hd-protocol "The Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) key creation and transfer protocol"
[header nonce]: /en/developer-reference#term-header-nonce "Four bytes of arbitrary data in a block header used to let miners create headers with different hashes for proof of work"
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[input]: /en/developer-guide#term-input "The input to a transaction linking to the output of a previous transaction which permits spending of satoshis"
[inputs]: /en/developer-guide#term-input "The input to a transaction linking to the output of a previous transaction which permits spending of satoshis"
[intermediate certificate]: /en/developer-examples#term-intermediate-certificate "A intermediate certificate authority certificate which helps connect a leaf (receiver) certificate to a root certificate authority"
[internal byte order]: /en/developer-reference#hash-byte-order "The standard order in which hash digests are displayed as strings---the same format used in blocks"
[key index]: /en/developer-guide#term-key-index "An index number used in the HD wallet formula to generate child keys from a parent key"
[key pair]: /en/developer-guide#term-key-pair "A private key and its derived public key"
[label]: /en/developer-guide#term-label "The label parameter of a bitcoin: URI which provides the spender with the receiver's name (unauthenticated)"
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[regression test mode]: /en/developer-examples#regtest-mode "A local testing environment in which developers can control blocks"
[root certificate]: /en/developer-examples#term-root-certificate "A certificate belonging to a certificate authority (CA)"
[root seed]: /en/developer-guide#term-root-seed "A potentially-short value used as a seed to generate a master private key and master chain code for an HD wallet"
[RPC byte order]: /en/developer-reference#hash-byte-order "A hash digest displayed with the byte order reversed; used in Bitcoin Core RPCs and other software."
[satoshi]: /en/developer-guide#term-satoshi "The smallest unit of Bitcoin value; 0.00000001 bitcoins. Also used generically for any value of bitcoins"
[satoshis]: /en/developer-guide#term-satoshi "The smallest unit of Bitcoin value; 0.00000001 bitcoins. Also used generically for any value of bitcoins"
[sequence number]: /en/developer-guide#term-sequence-number "A number intended to allow time locked transactions to be updated before being finalized; not currently used except to disable locktime in a transaction"
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[signature]: /en/developer-guide#term-signature "The result of combining a private key and some data in an ECDSA signature operation which allows anyone with the corresponding public key to verify the signature"
[signature hash]: /en/developer-guide#term-signature-hash "A byte appended onto signatures generated in Bitcoin which allows the signer to specify what data was signed, allowing modification of the unsigned data"
[signature script]: /en/developer-guide#term-signature-script "Data generated by a spender which is almost always used as variables to satisfy a pubkey script"
[soft fork]: /en/developer-guide#term-soft-fork "A temporary fork in the block chain which commonly occurs when miners using non-upgraded nodes violate a new consensus rule their nodes don't know about."
[spv]: /en/developer-guide#simplified-payment-verification-spv "A method for verifying particular transactions were included in blocks without downloading the entire contents of the block chain"
[ssl signature]: /en/developer-examples#term-ssl-signature "Signatures created and recognized by major SSL implementations such as OpenSSL"
[stack]: /en/developer-guide#term-stack "An evaluation stack used in Bitcoin's script language"
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[X509Certificates]: /en/developer-examples#term-x509certificates
[BFGMiner]: https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
[BIP16]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0016.mediawiki
[BIP21]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0021.mediawiki
[BIP30]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0030.mediawiki
[BIP32]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki
[BIP34]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0034.mediawiki
[BIP39]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki
[BIP50]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki
[BIP70]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0070.mediawiki
[BIP71]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0071.mediawiki
[BIP72]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0072.mediawiki
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[RPCs]: /en/developer-reference#remote-procedure-calls-rpcs
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[secp256k1]: http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/sylvain.duquesne/master/standards/sec2_final.pdf
[section hash byte order]: /en/developer-reference#hash-byte-order
[section verifying payment]: /en/developer-guide#verifying-payment
[section detecting forks]: /en/developer-guide#detecting-forks
[bitcoin URI subsection]: /en/developer-guide#bitcoin-uri
[SHA256]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2
[Stratum mining protocol]: http://mining.bitcoin.cz/stratum-mining