Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary
A complete list of crypto definitions
Cryptocurrency and blockchain glossary
Commonly used terms in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency
Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency
The degree of steepness/reliability/profitability of cryptocurrency funds - for example, TIR -1 is the coolest, shooting room -2 - less cool and so on
This is a format for attracting investments in which the organization sells part of its assets (tokens) in exchange for cryptocurrencies. ICO is an analogue of an IPO in the cryptocurrency market, only instead of shares/bonds are used project tokens.
Who (Wallet Holder Offering) - a type of ICO, which is carried out only by owners of certain wallets
The block reward is the payment that is offered to the node that is securing the blockchain. In the case of Bitcoin, which is has a Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm, these would be the miners. The payment is in the form of the native cryptocurrency of that blockchain. The amount is a predetermined reward per block, but often that is supplemented with the fees that are paid for the transactions that block contains. For Bitcoin the current block rewards are cut in half every four years. This is called the ‘halvening’.
1) Mining Pool (Mining Pool) is the association of miners in order to simplify the production of cryptocurrencies.
2) Poole as a common fund. Investors create similar funds, invest their resources (this is not necessarily money, possibly investing their own time) in this fund and on behalf of the fund invest, for example, through tokens. The allocation won is distributed between the participants in the pool in proportion to the invested resources.
Launched in 2015, Ethereum is the world's programmable blockchain. Like other blockchains, Ethereum has a native cryptocurrency called Ether (ETH). ETH is digital money. People all over the world use ETH to make payments, as a store of value, or as collateral. But unlike other blockchains, Ethereum can do much more.
This is a fluctuation in the price of the asset or its profitability for a certain period of time. As a rule, the higher the volatility of the asset, the higher the risk. The prices of such assets often fluctuate and for a short period of time can greatly go into plus or minus. The volatility is has a strong psychological effect on investors: with high price fluctuations, panic occurs, uncertainty presses and in the end the drain of securities at the very bottom begins, and then experiences from such manipulations.
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