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Hush Terminology Learns You Good!
Autoshielding
A feature where Hush wallets will automatically send funds to a zaddr from transparent addresses, on first use. This protects funds, giving them privacy, without users needing to understand why or do the operation themselves.
coinbase
The technical term for newly mined coins, which have no transaction history.
DPoW
Delayed-Proof-of-Work, which protects HUSH with the hashrate security of Bitcoin.
hushd
The main "full node" of hush. Downloads the full blockchain which is currently a few GB :)
HushChat
A new "chat GUI" encrypted messenger interface to Hush wallets.
ITM Attack
A shielded address linkability metadata leakage attack
Komodo (KMD)
The very first Zcash Protocol genesis block to be mined, before ZEC mainnet launched.
mainnet
The production network of a blockchain, as opposed to a testnet. It is similar to the master branch in Git.
Metaverse Metadata Attack
The concept of simulating the history of a blockchain to make it leak metadata via consensus oracle attack.
SDA
SilentDragonAndroid GUI mobile wallet
https://github.com/MyHush/SilentDragonAndroid
SDL
SilentDragonLite GUI Wallet
https://github.com/MyHush/SilentDragonLite
SD
SilentDragon GUI Full Node Wallet
https://github.com/MyHush/SilentDragon
Sietch
Privacy tech invented by Hush that protects against new attacks described on https://attackingzcash.com including the ITM attack in particular and Metaverse Metadata attacks in general.
More details: https://github.com/MyHush/sietch
TADDR
Transparent address, which looks like R... on HUSH
UTXO
Unspent transaction output, from a transparent address.
WITNESS
An internal data structure of shielded funds.
ZUTXO
Shielded unspent transaction output.
ZADDR
z address aka shielded adddress which looks like zs1.... on HUSH
ZEC
Zcash mainnet