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title: "blockchain-terms"
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**Hyperledger: An organisation made up of industry leaders who are helping to develop various permissioned blockchain framworks**
**Smart Contracts:** Within ethereum a smart contract is a type of account which had storage and code, and executes the code when it recieves a message.
**Sybil Attack:** A type of attack on a distributed ledger where an attack amasses a 51% majority over something so they can take control
**Common Pool Resource (CPR):** [common-pool-resources](notes/common-pool-resources.md)
**UTXO unspent transaction output:** The original method of record keeping in a blockchain where there are no "accounts" at the protocol layer, and coins are stored as unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs). The alternative which is used by ethereum, tron, etc are Account-based blockchains
**Provenance:** The chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object.
**Notary:** A public officer authorized by law to perform similar functions, and to authenticate the execution of deeds and contracts, and the accuracy of copies of documents, and to take affidavits and administer oaths.
**Contingency theory:** A contingency theory is an orgzational theory that claims that there is no best way to organize a corporation, to lead a company, or to make decisions. Instead, the optimal course of action is contingent upon the internal and external situation.
**Decision problem:** In computability theory and computational complexity theory, a decision problem is a computational problem that can be posed as a yesno question of the input values.
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