Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary

Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency

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Block Reward

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’.

Other Important Terms

Dior or Dayor

The abbreviation, which stands for "conduct your own research." This term is used in cases where it is recommended to independently study the project, get acquainted with its white paper, see ratings on various aggregators, etc., and not to believe the word for other investors.

IDO

This is a format for attracting investments in which the sale of tokens to investors of any project is organized on a decentralized exchange, for example, Pancakeswap. ILO (Initial Liquidity Offering) - a type of IDO when funds are sent to the liquidity pool

Fomo

The abbreviation, which is deciphered as a syndrome of lost opportunity or benefit. The negative emotional state that occurs in the crypto -investor if he did not take advantage of the presented opportunity to earn or profitably invest his funds. The peak manifestations of this state are manifested when the entire network literally buzzes about incredible Xs, that is, profits, and this user only remains, what to consider other people's earnings.

ERC-20

This is a standard, a certain set of rules that allows developers to create tokens over the Ethereum blockchain. These tokens are known as ERC-20 tokens. The ERC-20 standard is the most common in the cryptocurrency industry today.

Gas

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.

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