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 ### Effective Amount
 
-The total amount assigned to the claim, including supports.
+The total LBC amount assigned to a claim, including the original bid and any tips/supports. During a vanity URL takeover, the effective amount is shown as 0. 
 
 ### Elliptic Curve Arithmetic
 
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 Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider. In LBRY, streams as associated with claim data in order to provide the capability to download files over a Peer to Peer network.
 
+### Support (Claim Support)
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+A support is a wallet send transaction that includes claim information, which results in adding to a claim's effective amount. A tip is a special type of suppot that is sent from one wallet to another, so that the receiver can spend it to their own wallet. 
+
 ### Target
 
 A 256-bit number that puts an upper limit for a block header hash to be valid. The lower the target is, the higher the *difficulty* to find a valid hash. The maximum (easiest) target is 0x00000000FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000. The difficulty and the target are adjusted every 2016 blocks (approx. 2 weeks) to keep interval between the blocks close to 10 minutes.