diff --git a/glossary.asciidoc b/glossary.asciidoc index 6bf117ed..82fd3e4f 100644 --- a/glossary.asciidoc +++ b/glossary.asciidoc @@ -226,24 +226,24 @@ stale block:: Block which were successfully mined but which isn’t included on the current best block chain, likely because some other block at the same height had its chain extended first. timelocks:: - A Timelock is a type of encumbrance that restricts the spending of some bitcoin until a specified future time or block height. Timelocks feature prominently in many Bitcoin contracts, including payment channels and hashed timelock contracts. + A timelock is a type of encumbrance that restricts the spending of some bitcoin until a specified future time or block height. Timelocks feature prominently in many Bitcoin contracts, including payment channels and hashed timelock contracts. transaction:: In simple terms, a transfer of bitcoin from one address to another. More precisely, a transaction is a signed data structure expressing a transfer of value. Transactions are transmitted over the bitcoin network, collected by miners, and included into blocks, made permanent on the blockchain. -Transaction Pool:: +transaction pool:: An unordered collection of transactions that are not in blocks in the main chain, but for which we have input transactions. Turing completeness:: A program language is called "Turing complete", if that it can run any program that a Turing machine can run given enough time and memory. -UTXO (aka Unspent Transaction Output):: - UTXO is an Unspent Transaction Output that can be spent as an input in a new transaction. +unspent transaction output (UTXO):: + UTXO is an unspent transaction output that can be spent as an input in a new transaction. wallet:: Software that holds all your bitcoin addresses and secret keys. Use it to send, receive, and store your bitcoin. -WIF (aka Wallet Import Format):: +Wallet Import Format (WIF):: WIF or Wallet Import Format is a data interchange format designed to allow exporting and importing a single private key with a flag indicating whether or not it uses a compressed public key. -Some contributed definitions have been sourced under a CC-BY license from the bitcoin Wiki (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page]), or from other open-source documentation sources. +Some contributed definitions have been sourced under a CC-BY license from the https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page[bitcoin Wiki] or from other open source documentation sources.