Glossary

  • Activity Content - The linked content connected to an "Announcement"
  • Announcement - An item of data, typically an image or note, posted to the blockchain via a "Batch Publication"
  • Bad actor - A user intentionally using the application for bad-faith or illegal purposes
  • Batch Publication - A collection of Announcements
  • Bot - An automated account, sometimes malicious but often providing some service ("Hey Alexa, what's the weather?")
  • Consumer - Someone who reads content from social media
  • Contract address - The unique number associated with a smart contract posted on the blockchain
  • Hash Collision - The vanishingly unlikely possibility of a hash providing the same output for two different inputs
  • Hash function - A cryptographic function whose output is effectively unique for any given input without any information from the input being accessible in the output
  • Hash - A string of characters generated from a hash function, see "Hash function"
  • Identity Contract - The smart contract used to store a user's delegated public addresses and permissions, see "Contract address"
  • Publisher - The contract that posts new content from a publisher to the blockchain through batch publications
  • Store - A means of keeping messages or data for an extended period of time
  • User - A human using our application. See article for an exception