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Altcoin

An altcoin is an "alternative coin" or a cryptocurrency launched after Bitcoin. The term “altcoin” thus refers ...

Bitcoin

Bitcoin is the first and most important cryptocurrency. The anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto invented and ...

Satoshi Nakamoto

Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous person or group responsible for creating the bitcoin protocol. Satoshi Nakamoto ...

HODL

"Hodl" is a phrase that refers to holding and not selling cryptocurrency. The term is derived from a post on Bitcointalk ...

Black swan event

A black swan event refers to an unpredictable event that...

Wallet

A cryptocurrency wallet is a device or service that stores...

Volatility

Volatility is the degree to which the price of a crypto coin or...

Stablecoin

A stablecoin is a digital currency whose value remains the same...

Software wallet

A software wallet is a kind of digital wallet in which a user's...

Shitcoin

With shitcoin, people refer to coins that are of...

Seed phrase

A seed phrase is a collection of 12 or 24 words that...

Scalability

Scalability in blockchain technology is the ability of a blockchain network to...

Private sale

A private sale token is similar to a pre-sale token...

Private key

The private key is a long code like the public key...

Pre-sale

A pre-sale token is a token that is not yet available through...

Pyramid game

Pyramid game is seen as a way of scamming. People at the top of...

Phishing

Phishing is digital scam...

Native token

A native token is the original cryptocurrency of a blockchain network...

Metaverse

Metaverse is an umbrella term for the online world where everything...

Miner

Miners are an essential part of any Proof-of-Work (PoW) blockchain consensus protocol and...

Liquidity

In the crypto context, liquidity means the...

Ledger (two meanings)

A ledger is a commonly used term in the crypto world...

Intrinsic value

The value that an object, company or digital property has in itself...

Inflation

Inflation refers to the gradual rise of prices in an economy relative to...

Hardware wallet

A hardware wallet is a kind of wallet / bank account on which crypto...

Hacker

Computer hackers are often malicious individuals who try to break into...

Genesis block

The first block of a blockchain. Genesis refers to "creation"...

Finfluencer

This term was coined for influencers who influence...

Fiat currency

Fiat currency is a term that refers to any currency used by a...

Deflation

The opposite of inflation. The scarcity of, for example, money or crypto...

DEX (Decentralized Exchange)

An open-source trading platform controlled by computer code and a decentralized community...

DAO (Decentralized Autonomous organization)

A DAO is an organization or company that is managed decentrally...

Central Exchange (CEX)

A traditional trading platform operated by a company...

Bull-Market

A period when a market, instrument or sector shows a strong...

Blockchain

A blockchain is a public ledger maintained by a peer-to-peer network...

Bear-Market

A period when a market, instrument or sector shows a strong...

All-time low (ATL)

All-time low (ATL) is a term used when a price reaches the...

All-time high (ATH)

All-time high (ATH) is a term used when a price reaches the...

Algorithm

An algorithm is a very broad concept. Perhaps best described as instructions for a computer to...

51% attack

A 51% attack is a scenario in which 50% of the nodes within a blockchain network are...

Whitepaper

Whitepapers are widely used for new crypto projects. It’s a document where the project is extensively ...

DeFi

Staking

Staking is the process by which a user of a blockchain network "stakes" or locks their cryptocurrency assets to a network ...

Whale

An address on the blockchain that holds a large number of crypto...

Validator

In the context of blockchain technology, a validator is the one responsible for...

Smart contract

A smart contract is a kind of digital contract in a blockchain that executes itself...

Rollups

A technology to perform faster and more blockchain transactions...

Peer-to-Peer

A peer-to-peer (P2P) network structure related to blockchain technology is generally...

Oracles

Oracles are third-party information providers that send real-world...

Node

Also called node. In blockchain technology, a node is...

NFT

An NFT is a unique ownership token on the blockchain...

Hard fork

A hard fork is a software update that is not backwards compatible...

Halving

The bitcoin halving is the halving of the amount of...

Gas

The cost associated with handling and executing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain is called gas...

Flippening

Flippening is a term speculators use for the exchange of...

ERC-20

The ERC-20 standard describes the technical specifications requirements that...

Dino (Decentralized In Name Only)

This term refers to crypto projects that pretend to be decentralized...

Decentralization

In many ways, decentralization is the defining characteristic of blockchain technology...

Consensus mechanism

When a transaction takes place in a blockchain network, the status of the transaction must be...

Cold Wallet

A cold wallet is a cryptocurrency wallet that is not connected to the internet...

Zero-knowledge proofs

A way to prove to another party that a certain statement is true, without having ...

Web3

The term Web 3.0 refers to a vision of the third generation of computers...

Web3 Foundation

The Web3 Foundation is a Swiss-based foundation dedicated...

TRC-20

TRC-20 is a smart contract standard for token...

Snapshot

A snapshot means a snapshot of the distribution of all tokens of...

Sharding

Sharding is a mechanism used to divide a blockchain network...

Proof-of-Work (POW)

Proof of Work (PoW) is a blockchain consensus mechanism first...

Proof-of-Stake (POS)

Proof of Stake (PoS) is one of the most widely used blockchain consensus mechanisms...

Poap (Proof of attendance protocol)

Poaps are a special kind of NFTs. You can see it as...

Dapps (Decentralized application)

A decentralized application - or dApp - uses blockchain technology to address use cases...