From fe6cd6ff6ed1995eb0c483f3ac10c18c6883a17e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nadams Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 06:59:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Edited glossary.asciidoc with Atlas code editor --- glossary.asciidoc | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/glossary.asciidoc b/glossary.asciidoc index 845b8aa8..a28723bf 100644 --- a/glossary.asciidoc +++ b/glossary.asciidoc @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ coinbase transaction:: cold storage:: Refers to keeping a reserve of bitcoin offline. Cold storage is achieved when Bitcoin private keys are created and stored in a secure offline environment. Cold storage is important for anyone with bitcoin holdings. Online computers are vulnerable to hackers and should not be used to store a significant amount of bitcoin. -Colored coins:: - It's an open source Bitcoin 2.0 protocol that enables developers to create digital assets on top of Bitcoin Blockchain utilizing its functionalities beyond currency. +colored coins:: + An open source Bitcoin 2.0 protocol that enables developers to create digital assets on top of Bitcoin Blockchain utilizing its functionalities beyond currency. confirmations:: Once a transaction is included in a block, it has one confirmation. As soon as _another_ block is mined on the same blockchain, the transaction has two confirmations, and so on. Six or more confirmations is considered sufficient proof that a transaction cannot be reversed. @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Double spending:: ECDSA:: Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm or ECDSA is a cryptographic algorithm used by Bitcoin to ensure that funds can only be spent by their rightful owners. -Extra Nonce:: +extra nonce:: As difficulty increased, miners often cycled through all 4 billion values of the nonce without finding a block. Because the coinbase script can store between 2 and 100 bytes of data, miners started using that space as extra nonce space, allowing them to explore a much larger range of block header values to find valid blocks. fees::