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’.

Blockchain

Blockchain is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records the provenance of a digital asset.

Bounty program

Bounties are simple tasks of jobs by the team behind a coin. These can be as simple as joining a Telegram channel or by (re)tweeting. It could also be a bit more difficult like a translation job for example. The participants receive rewards in the form of coins in exchange for completing these bounties.

Boyarin

Аn investor who made more x20 and earned a large amount of money an investor who received a large number of tokens due to the performance of activities (for example, twin), which has grown strongly in price Slove - the opposite of boyar - a person who does not have a large portfolio

Bullish

Bullish (from the English. Bullish - bull) The term that means optimistic mood and faith in the development of a separate token, project or the entire market.

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.

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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