A term from the early days of Bitcoin when every coin was either Bitcoin or a fork of Bitcoin. All the non-Bitcoin forks were called altcoins, short for alternative coins, so the world was divided into Bitcoin and alts. It is still used today, though is less relevant since there are many different coins with different consensus mechanisms and models that are very different to Bitcoin. NOTE: All altcoins are by definition considered scams and anyone who owns them scammers and idiots, according to Bitcoin maxis.

That period of a bull market right after Bitcoin pumps when people believe that the Bitcoin profits will start to rotate into non-Bitcoin coins, which in turn will pump and moon.

Ask Me Anything. Usually, an online event where a person of note will spend a given amount of time and take any questions the public will throw at them... hence the name!

A legacy term for things that are worth money. Traditionally referring to items like jewellery, precious metals, antiques, shares and property. This term can also be applied to Bitcoin (digital asset), Ethereum (productive digital asset), pudgy penguin (jpeg of a f*#king penguin), or any coin that a 14-year-old spun up in their parents’ basement.

All Time High. The highest price an asset has reached in the past. The pre-cursor to price discovery… where we all get rich af.