Monero, the Glossary
Monero (Abbreviation: XMR) is a cryptocurrency which uses a blockchain with privacy-enhancing technologies to obfuscate transactions to achieve anonymity and fungibility.[1]
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- Currencies introduced in 2014
- Privacy software
- Private currencies
Ad blocking
Ad blocking or ad filtering is a software capability for blocking or altering online advertising in a web browser, an application or a network.
AlphaBay
AlphaBay was a darknet market operating at different times between September 2014 and February 2023.
Android (operating system)
Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Application-specific integrated circuit
An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficiency video codec.
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ARM architecture family
ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.
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Ars Technica
Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Binance
Binance Holdings Ltd., branded Binance, is a global company that operates the largest cryptocurrency exchange in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies. Monero and Binance are Currencies without ISO 4217 code.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Monero and Bitcoin are application layer protocols, cryptocurrency projects, Currencies without ISO 4217 code and private currencies.
Blockchain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes. Monero and blockchain are blockchains.
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.
C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.
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Chainalysis
Chainalysis is an American blockchain analysis firm headquartered in New York City.
Christopher Cantwell
Christopher Charles Cantwell (born November 12, 1980), also known as the Crying Nazi, is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and antisemitic conspiracy theorist.
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CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack
On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline, an American oil pipeline system that originates in Houston, Texas, and carries gasoline and jet fuel mainly to the Southeastern United States, suffered a ransomware cyberattack that impacted computerized equipment managing the pipeline.
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Condé Nast
Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.
Crypto-anarchy
Crypto-anarchy, crypto-anarchism, cyberanarchy or cyberanarchism is a political ideology focusing on the protection of privacy, political freedom, and economic freedom, the adherents of which use cryptographic software for confidentiality and security while sending and receiving information over computer networks.
Cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.
Cryptojacking
Cryptojacking is the act of exploiting a computer to mine cryptocurrencies, often through websites, against the user's will or while the user is unaware.
CryptoNote
CryptoNote is an application layer protocol designed for use with cryptocurrencies that aims to solve specific problems identified in Bitcoin. Monero and CryptoNote are application layer protocols.
Cypherpunk
A cypherpunk is any individual advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change.
Darknet market
A darknet market is a commercial website on the dark web that operates via darknets such as Tor and I2P.
DarkSide (hacker group)
DarkSide is a cybercriminal hacking group, believed to be based in Russia, that targets victims using ransomware and extortion; it is believed to be behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack.
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Dash (cryptocurrency)
Dash is an open source cryptocurrency. Monero and Dash (cryptocurrency) are 2014 software, cryptocurrency projects and Currencies without ISO 4217 code.
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Ethereum
Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain with smart contract functionality. Monero and Ethereum are blockchains and cryptocurrency projects.
Europol
Europol, officially the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, is the law enforcement agency of the European Union (EU).
Fast Company
Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design.
Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.
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FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
Fungibility
In economics and law, fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are essentially interchangeable.
Graphics processing unit
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.
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Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.
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IP address
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.
IRS Criminal Investigation
Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is the United States federal law enforcement agency responsible for investigating potential criminal violations of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code and related financial crimes, such as money laundering, currency transaction violations, tax-related identity theft fraud and terrorist financing that adversely affect tax administration.
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JavaScript
JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.
Kim Il Sung University
Kim Il Sung University is a university in Taesong, Pyongyang, North Korea.
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Kraken (company)
Kraken (legally named Payward, Inc.) is a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange, founded in 2011.
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Lightning Network
The Lightning Network (LN) is a payment protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain and those of other cryptocurrencies.
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Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
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MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
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Malware
Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software)Tahir, R. (2018).
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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MIT License
The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s.
Money laundering
Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
Open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution.
Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit.
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Privacy-enhancing technologies
Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) are technologies that embody fundamental data protection principles by minimizing personal data use, maximizing data security, and empowering individuals.
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Probabilistic method
In mathematics, the probabilistic method is a nonconstructive method, primarily used in combinatorics and pioneered by Paul Erdős, for proving the existence of a prescribed kind of mathematical object.
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Proof of work
Proof of work (PoW) is a form of cryptographic proof in which one party (the prover) proves to others (the verifiers) that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been expended.
Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of cryptovirological malware that permanently blocks access to the victim's personal data unless a "ransom" is paid.
REvil
REvil (Ransomware Evil; also known as Sodinokibi) was a Russia-based or Russian-speaking private ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation.
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Ring signature
In cryptography, a ring signature is a type of digital signature that can be performed by any member of a set of users that each have keys.
RISC-V
RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles.
Rob Wainwright (civil servant)
Sir Robert Mark Wainwright KCMG (born 17 September 1967) is a British civil servant.
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ShapeShift
ShapeShift, founded in 2014 by Erik Voorhees was a cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Switzerland that turned into a permissionless DAO operating on the blockchain.
Showtime (TV network)
Showtime, also known as Paramount+ with Showtime (with "Showtime" being the former name of its main channel from 1976 to 2024, but still used for certain marketing and channel branding contexts), is an American premium television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
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Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
The Numbers (website)
The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.
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The Shadow Brokers
The Shadow Brokers (TSB) is a hacker group who first appeared in the summer of 2016.
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The Verge
The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.
Unite the Right rally
The Unite the Right rally was a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from August 11 to 12, 2017.
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Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company founded in Washington, D.C. with operational headquarters in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
WannaCry ransomware attack
The WannaCry ransomware attack was a worldwide cyberattack in May 2017 by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system by encrypting data and demanding ransom payments in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
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Weev
Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer (born), best known by his pseudonym weev, is an American computer hacker and professional Internet troll.
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White nationalism
White nationalism is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a raceHeidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks.
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White paper
A white paper is a report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter.
Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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X86
x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the 8086 microprocessor and its 8-bit-external-bus variant, the 8088.
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X86-64
x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999.
Zcash
Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency which is based on Bitcoin's codebase. Monero and Zcash are application layer protocols, cryptocurrency projects, Currencies without ISO 4217 code, private currencies and software using the MIT license.
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Zero-knowledge proof
In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that some given statement is true, while avoiding conveying to the verifier any information beyond the mere fact of that statement's truth.
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See also
Currencies introduced in 2014
- Auroracoin
- Coinye
- Lunar Series (British coin)
- MazaCoin
- Monero
- Tether (cryptocurrency)
- Titcoin
- Zimbabwean bond coins
Privacy software
- AdGuard
- Anonym.OS
- Carnegie Mellon University Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory
- Fawkes (software)
- GNU Privacy Guard
- I2P
- Internet Junkbuster
- Metadata removal tool
- Monero
- Peerio
- Pretty Good Privacy
- Printer tracking dots
- Privacy software
- PrivacyStar
- Samhain (software)
- Tails (operating system)
Private currencies
- Bitcoin
- Calgary Dollar
- California gold coinage
- Canadian Tire money
- Company scrip
- Cryptocurrency exchange
- Cryptocurrency wallet
- Detroit Community Scrip
- Digital gold currencies
- Disney Dollars
- Economy of Second Life
- Facebook Credits
- Firo (cryptocurrency)
- Goldback
- Liberty dollar (private currency)
- Monero
- Nano (cryptocurrency)
- Neutral unit of construction
- Peercoin
- Pioneer Energy
- Private currency
- Private currency in pre-revolutionary Russia
- Promotional fake United States currency
- Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination
- Ripple (payment protocol)
- Toronto dollar
- UIC franc
- Ven (currency)
- WhopperCoin
- Zcash
- Zerocoin protocol
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero
Also known as BitMonero, Coin-hive, Coinhive, CryptoNight, Monero (cryptocurrency), RandomX, RingCT, Wownero, Xmr.
, Open source, Organized crime, Privacy-enhancing technologies, Probabilistic method, Proof of work, Ransomware, REvil, Ring signature, RISC-V, Rob Wainwright (civil servant), ShapeShift, Showtime (TV network), Starbucks, The Numbers (website), The Shadow Brokers, The Verge, Unite the Right rally, Vox Media, WannaCry ransomware attack, Weev, White nationalism, White paper, Wired (magazine), X86, X86-64, Zcash, Zero-knowledge proof.