Five words do a lot of heavy lifting on this site: KYC, no-KYC, Monero, warrant canary, DDoS mitigation. Each gets one short page that says what it means, why we care, and where on this site it actually matters.
No jargon for jargon's sake. Every entry opens with a one or two sentence definition that any technically literate adult should be able to read once and understand. The longer prose comes after, for context.
Most of these words are abused in marketing. "No-KYC" is not the same as "anonymous"; "Monero" is not the same as "untraceable"; "DDoS mitigation" is not the same as "DDoS proof". Each entry draws the line.
A definition in a vacuum is trivia. Each entry closes with "where it shows up on this site" — the doctrine, the jurisdiction page, the VPS catalogue, the guide that uses the term in anger.
More entries get added as new words become load-bearing on the site. If a definition is missing, it is because we have not earned the right to use the word yet.
Know Your Customer — the identity check most hosts run on you, by law or by choice.
Refusing to collect customer identity — the floor of a privacy host.
Default-private cryptocurrency with no public chain to walk.
A periodic statement whose silence is itself a signal.
Filtering volumetric attack traffic before it reaches the server.
The anonymous overlay network with three-hop circuits.
Pseudonymous public-ledger cryptocurrency — chain-traceable, not anonymous.
Bitcoin Layer-2 channels for instant, low-fee micropayments.
Kernel-fast modern VPN protocol — ~4,000 lines of code.
Encrypted tunnel between a client and a server you trust.
Virtual Private Server — a KVM-virtualised slice with root SSH.
PCIe-attached SSD storage protocol — the default on every NordBastion tier.
32-bit Internet Protocol address space — dedicated public v4 on every plan.
128-bit Internet Protocol address space — /64 routed on every VPS.
Encrypted remote-shell protocol — the control plane of every VPS.
Transport Layer Security — the encryption beneath every HTTPS connection.
Public-key cryptography for signing and encrypting messages and files.
Encryption where only the communicating endpoints hold the keys.
