Definitions,
answers, and
a check
Kaspa has a vocabulary problem: anticone, blue score, DAA score, sompi, storage mass, selected parent. None of it is difficult once defined, and almost none of it is defined properly in the places people first encounter it. Everything here is written to be read once and understood.
The vocabulary, without hand-waving
Click any term to expand the full explanation. Filter by area or search the full text — the search covers definitions, not just titles, so you can find a term by what it does rather than what it is called.
Including the ones with uncomfortable answers
A FAQ that only answers flattering questions is marketing. Several of these say “nobody knows yet”, because that is the accurate answer and pretending otherwise would make everything else here less trustworthy.
Find out what you actually absorbed
Every question comes with an explanation of why the answer is right, so a wrong answer is worth more than a right one. Most people miss the question about red blocks — that misconception is the most repeated error in Kaspa discussion.
What does GHOSTDAG do with two blocks mined at the same instant?
Reading and understanding feel identical from the inside. Being asked twelve questions is the cheapest way to find out which one you did — and the explanations turn a wrong answer into the thing you remember.
That is the expected outcome before reading the explainer, not a verdict on you. This material is genuinely counterintuitive — the whole reason blockDAGs took a decade to arrive is that “keep every block” sounds obviously broken until you see the ordering rule.
Definitions,
answers, and
a check
Kaspa has a vocabulary problem: anticone, blue score, DAA score, sompi, storage mass, selected parent. None of it is difficult once defined, and almost none of it is defined properly in the places people first encounter it. Everything here is written to be read once and understood.
The vocabulary, without hand-waving
Click any term to expand the full explanation. Filter by area or search the full text — the search covers definitions, not just titles, so you can find a term by what it does rather than what it is called.
Including the ones with uncomfortable answers
A FAQ that only answers flattering questions is marketing. Several of these say “nobody knows yet”, because that is the accurate answer and pretending otherwise would make everything else here less trustworthy.
Find out what you actually absorbed
Every question comes with an explanation of why the answer is right, so a wrong answer is worth more than a right one. Most people miss the question about red blocks — that misconception is the most repeated error in Kaspa discussion.
What does GHOSTDAG do with two blocks mined at the same instant?
Reading and understanding feel identical from the inside. Being asked twelve questions is the cheapest way to find out which one you did — and the explanations turn a wrong answer into the thing you remember.
That is the expected outcome before reading the explainer, not a verdict on you. This material is genuinely counterintuitive — the whole reason blockDAGs took a decade to arrive is that “keep every block” sounds obviously broken until you see the ordering rule.