Blockchain

A distributed, contractual, trusted, cryptographic ecosystem with lots of protocols and apps, or DApps as one should refer to them when describing blockchain. Repeating most of these words, regardless of the order, will make you sound like you know what it is, and then you can return to discussing your favorite moments of Schitt’s Creek. You may also refer to “a blockchain” or “the blockchain” but not “the Blockchain” or “a block-chain.”

Note that blockchain should never be confused with the clock chain because that is a reference to Flavor Flav. Additionally, when pronouncing the stage name of William Jonathan Drayton, Jr., please be sure to say the surname as “Flave” as opposed to “Flahv”; while the name as written sounds like it rhymes with “Slav,” Mr. Drayton, Jr.’s economizing of letters is commendable.

His iconic neckwear should be called a clock chain but not a “clockchain.” If you do ever need to write “clockchain,” I cannot emphasize how many times you will want to double-check your spelling. If your rendition of “clockchain” is autocorrected to a nine-letter version, that is between you and your autocorrecting software.