Every Bitcoin, treasury, and reserve term — defined clearly, A to Z, by people who use them daily.
This glossary covers the full vocabulary of Bitcoin — the protocol, the culture, and the treasury-company metrics that now dominate corporate finance coverage. Terms shown in bold orange link to full expert explainers (700+ words each, with FAQs); the rest of the index is being expanded continuously. For the big picture, start with What Is a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?, then explore who holds Bitcoin on our global tracker and companies index.
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21 Million · 51% Attack
Absolute Scarcity · Adaptor Signature · Address · Adj. BTC Yield YTD % · Air Gap · Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) · Arbitrage · Assets Under Management (AUM) · Assumed Fully Diluted Shares · Austrian Economics · Average Cost Basis
Balance Sheet · Basic Earnings Per Share (EPS) · Basic Shares Outstanding · Basis Points · Bear Market · Bear Trap · Bearer-asset · Bitcoin · Bitcoin Core · Bitcoin Dominance · Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) · Bitcoin Maximalism · Bitcoin Node · Bitcoin Per Share · Bitcoin Quant · Bitcoin Script · Bitcoin Supply · Bitcoin Whitepaper · Blind Signatures · Block · Block Explorer · Block Header · Block Height · Block Reward · Block Size · Block Subsidy · Block Weight · Blockchain · Bond · Brokerage · BTC · BTC $ Income · BTC Bought Per Day · BTC Denominated Debt · BTC in Treasury · BTC NAV · BTC Yield · BTC Yield Discount · BTC Yield Multiple · BTC Yield Multiple (1 Year) · BTC Yield YTD % · Bubble · Bull Market · Bull Trap · Byzantine Generals Problem
Call Option · Cantillon Effect · Capital Gains · Capital Losses · Cash · Censorship Resistance · Centralization · Chain Analysis · Change Output · Circular Economy · Coinbase Transaction · CoinJoin · CoinSwap · Cold Storage · Collaborative Custody · Collateral · Confirmation · Consensus · Cost Basis · Counterparty Risk · Cryptography · Custodial · Custodial Wallet · Custody · Cypherpunk
Days Between Purchases · Days Since First Purchase · Days to Cover mNAV · Debasement · Debt (USD) · Decentralization · Deflationary · Delta · Derivatives · Diamond Hands · Difficulty · Difficulty Adjustment · Digital Cash · Digital Credit · Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) · Double Spend
ECDSA · Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) · Encryption · End-to-End (E2E) Encryption · Enterprise Value · Equity · Escrow · ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) · Exchange · Executive Order 6102 · Extended Private Key (Xprv) · Extended Public Key (Xpub)
Fiat Currency · Fiat Debt to BTC NAV · Fiduciary Duty · First Purchase · Forward BTC in Treasury · Forward BTC Yield · Forward mNAV · Forward Months to Cover mNAV · Forward Price to Bitcoin Yield Derived · Fractional Reserve Banking · FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) · Full Node · Fully Diluted mNAV · Fungibility · Futures
Game Theory · Gamma · Genesis Block · Gresham's Law
Halving · Hard Money · Hardware Wallet · Hash · Hash Function · Hash Rate · HODL · Honey Badger · Hot Wallet · Hyperbitcoinization
Immutability · Incremental BTC Required · Incremental Capital Required
Layer 2 · Ledger · Legal Tender · Leverage · Lightning Address · Lightning Channel · Lightning Network · Limit Order · Liquid Network · Liquidity · LNURL · Long Position
M-of-N · Mainnet · Market Capitalization · Market Order · Market to Bitcoin NAV (mNAV) · Medium of Exchange · Mempool · Merkle Tree · Mining · Mining Pool · Miniscript · Mixing · Mnemonic · Monetary Base · Monetary Policy · Money Multiplier · Money Supply · Months to Cover mNAV · Moore's Law · Mt. Gox · Multisig
Nakamoto Consensus · Nocoiner · Node · Non-Custodial · Nonce · Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins · Number Go Up
Off-Chain · Off-Ramp · On-Chain · On-Ramp · Opcode · Open Source · Opportunity Cost · Options · Oracle Problem · Orange Coin · Orphan Block · Over The Counter (OTC)
Paper Wallet · Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) · Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) · Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash (P2PKH) · Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH) · Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) · Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash (P2WPKH) · Pay-to-Witness-Script-Hash (P2WSH) · PayJoin · Peer-to-Peer (P2P) · Percent of BTC Stack · Percent of New BTC Supply Bought Daily · Point Time Locked Contract (PTLC) · Preferred Shares Outstanding · Price Discovery · Principal · Private Key · Proof of Keys · Proof of Reserves · Proof-of-Work (PoW) · Protocol · Public Key · Put Option
Quantitative Easing (QE) · Quantitative Tightening (QT)
Risk Adjusted Months to Cover mNAV
Satoshi · Satoshi Nakamoto · Sats per share · Scarcity · Schnorr Signature · Secp256k1 · Seed · SegWit · Self-custody · SHA-256 · Sharpe Ratio · Short Selling · Short Squeeze · Signature · Smart Contract · Sound Money · Spot Price · Stacking Sats · Store of Value
Taker · Taproot · Technical Analysis · Testnet · Time Preference · Timechain · Timelock · Torque Adjusted BTC Yield % · Transaction · Transaction Fee
Unit Bias · Unit of Account · UTXO · UTXO Set
Volatility · Volume
Wallet · Watch-Only Wallet · Whale · Wholecoiner · Witness · Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)
XBT
Yield
Zero-Confirmation Transaction · Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP)
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