Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary

Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency

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Cold Storage

Cold storage refers to storing cryptocurrency on a place where the private key cannot be accessed via the internet. This can be done on a hardware wallet, paper wallet or software wallet in an offline environment.

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Cliff

This is a period of locking tokens. As a rule, tokens are not given to investors all at once, but in several portions - butter. For each butch, the deadlines and the number of tokens are indicated. So temporary segments between the battles can be called cliffs. For example, the conditions of the sank is as follows: 50% of the tokens will be issued in TG (first butch), then cliff (blocking) for two months, then another 25% and again for six months, etc.

Pamp

This is a sharp increase in the price of an individual asset or market as a whole. Picking/Pimpapy means to artificially increase the price.

Profit

This is a profit in various types obtained as a result of investment activities.

Transaction Fee

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.

Smart Contract

A smart contract is a computer program or a transaction protocol respectively, which is intended to automatically execute, control or document respectively legally relevant events and actions according to the terms of a contract, of an agreement or of a negotiation.

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