An A-Z Guide to the Blockchain Technology
May 26, 2019 · 8 min read

ASIC
Short form for ‘Application Specific Integrated Circuit’. Often compared to GPUs, ASICs are specially made for mining and may offer significant power savings.
Bitcoin
Bitcoin uses blockchain as its distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) transaction ledger. Bitcoin users or “miners” (explained further down this list) create new blocks, each of…