Cryptocurrency Lingo 101: Your Essential Guide to Crypto Abbreviations

This article is a glossary of cryptocurrency abbreviations aimed at newcomers, covering terms such as BIP, DAO, DPoS, EIP, Lightning Network (LN), PoW and SegWit. It defines each term in simple language, for example describing a BIP as a formal document proposing changes to the Bitcoin protocol and PoW as a consensus algorithm in which miners solve mathematical puzzles. The entries also note that PoW has faced criticism for its energy consumption and that SegWit separates digital signature data from transaction information to increase network capacity. The excerpt ends partway through the technical section, at the DDoS entry.