Glossary

The terms as the app writes them, in alphabetical order.

• Address: Where a payment goes. An Epicbox address (es…@server), an HTTP address, or a Tor address (….onion). Never written on the blockchain. See Addresses.
• Advanced: The Settings page with the parts most people never need, all off to begin with. See Advanced settings.
• Awaiting finalization: A transaction still waiting for the other wallet.
• Change: The part of a spent output that comes back to your wallet as a new output.
• Confirmation: One block on top of the block holding a transaction. Final after 6 by default.
• Confirming: In a block, but with fewer confirmations than the setting. Not spendable yet.
• Consolidate: A payment to yourself that merges every spendable output into one.
• Direct · File Transfer: Paying with a transaction file (.tx) and a response file (.response) passed by hand.
• Direct · QR Payment: Paying phone to phone with an animated QR code. Epic Cash Mobile only.
• Epicbox: The server that carries payment messages between wallets and holds them while the other wallet is offline. See Epicbox.
• EPIC: The coin of Epic Cash.
• Export wallet data: Saves history, notes, contacts, invoices and settings in an encrypted wallet data file (.wfeh). See Backups and wallet data.
• Floonet, Usernet: Test networks. Their coins have no value. Mainnet holds real EPIC.
• Held by: Coins a linked device is spending, held on this device until its payment ends.
• Invoice: A request to be paid, sent between paired contacts. Experimental.
• Link · HTTP, Link · Tor: Paying straight to the other wallet while it is open, at a web address or a .onion address.
• Linked devices: One wallet on several of your own devices, kept in step. Experimental.
• Locked: Outputs in a send that is not finished yet.
• Mimblewimble: The protocol Epic Cash uses: no addresses or amounts on the blockchain.
• Network fee: What a transaction pays the miners. Depends on the number of outputs, not the amount.
• Network modes: Standard, Tor only and Offline. See Network modes.
• Node: A program connected to the Epic Cash network. The wallet reads the blockchain and posts through it. See Nodes.
• Output: One piece of the balance, like a note in a wallet.
• Pair, Paired, Verified: Linking your wallet once with a contact's, so files between you are sealed. Verified means the four pictures were checked together. See Pairing.
• Recheck balance: Reads the whole blockchain again for this wallet's outputs.
• Recovery phrase: The 24 words that are the backup and the key to the money. See Recovery phrase.
• Restored, Found by scan: Payments the wallet found on the blockchain after a restore or a recheck.
• Sealed: A transaction file only the paired contact's wallet can open.
• Sent from another wallet, Received by another wallet: A payment made by another wallet with the same recovery phrase.
• Slate: The message two wallets pass back and forth to build a transaction.
• Smallest, All: Which outputs a send spends: the fewest small ones, or all of them.
• Split, Split change: Making several outputs of nearly equal value, on its own or inside a send.
• Tor: A network that hides the wallet's IP address. See Tor.
• Waiting for recipient: A send the other wallet has not answered yet.