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A ‘HODLer’ is someone who holds onto their digital assets long term, regardless of market volatility or price fluctuations.

A Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) wallet is a type of cryptocurrency wallet that allows users to create and manage all of their public and private keys from a single root or master ‘seed’, organising these keys in a hierarchical, tree-like structure.

Hashpower, also known as hashrate, is a critical metric that represents the total computational power used to solve cryptographic puzzles necessary for mining, processing, and validating transactions.

A soft fork is a backward-compatible upgrade that introduces new rules to a blockchain's protocol, allowing both old and new versions of the software to coexist on the same network.

A hard fork is a fundamental change to a blockchain's protocol that is not backward-compatible, resulting in a split between the old and new versions of the blockchain.

A fiat-collateralised stablecoin is a cryptocurrency backed by fiat currency, offering a stable value pegged to the currency in which it's linked.

The Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC) is an open-source protocol that handles authentication and transport of data between blockchains.

Blockchain interoperability refers to the ability of different blockchains to communicate with each other, enabling the seamless transfer of information and assets across distinct blockchains.

Une preuve Merkle permet une vérification efficace et sécurisée des données dans la blockchain sans nécessiter un accès complet à l'intégralité de la structure des données.