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
These are commission fees that the user pays to miners or validators of the network for various transactions and transactions. The commission is paid using the native tokens of a particular network, for example, on the BSC network for transactions, you need to pay in BNB.
This is a person who interacts with a cryptocurrency industry - invests, engages in trading, performs twinets, etc. Moreover, he does it consciously and constantly develops in this industry.
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.
This is a unit of computing work for the implementation of transactions or smart contracts in the Ethereum network.
Any action on the Ethereum network requires a certain amount of electricity, computing power and miner time that must be paid. GAS in this case acts as a total indicator - how many resources are required to perform a particular transaction.
For example, the execution of a certain transaction requires 21010 GAS, the price of 1 GAS is 6 Gwei or 0.000000006 ETH, then the cost of the transaction will be 126060 GWEI or 0.00012606 ETH.
The abbreviation denoting what is happening in real life (outside the Internet) - is used in correspondence or as a hashtag on a tweeter
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’.
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