quartz/content/notes/blockchain-terms.md

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blockchain-terms

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):

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

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