Glossary

Glossary

• Address

• Block Hash

  • Also known as: header hash, block header hash
  • Definition: The hash of a Stacks block's header at a given Stacks chain height. Note that this hash is not guaranteed to be globally unique—the same Stacks block could be mined on different PoX forks.
  • Rust struct: BlockHeaderHash

• Block Height

• Block ID

  • Also known as: index block hash
  • Definition: A globally unique identifier derived from the block hash and the history of accepted PoX operations. This hash uniquely represents a specific Stacks block across all forks.
  • Rust struct: StacksBlockId

• Burnchain

  • The chain of blocks that we "transfer" (Nakamoto) or "burn" (pre-Nakamoto) for Sortition. You can basically read it as the "bitcoin chain".

  • Each Block in the burnchain constitutes a Tenure.

• Burn Header Hash

• Consensus Hash

  • This is the unique identifier of a Tenure. Blocks in the same Tenure, share the same Consensus Hash

• Block Confirmation

• Epoch

• MARF

• Microblocks (pre-Nakamoto)

• Merkle Tree

• Principal

• VRF Proof

• Tenure

• TokenTransferMemo

  • 34 bytes of custom data that can be associated to the transaction
  • Rust struct: TokenTransferMemo

• Sortition

• Stackers