Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary

Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency

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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.

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51% Attack

A ‘51% attack’ refers to a possible attack on a blockchain by a group of ‘miners’, who hold more than 50% of the hashrate. In such a situation the ‘miners’ have the possibility to deliberately not confirm transactions or to issue transactions twice (double-spend).

Insight

This is a phenomenon, which is a spontaneous finding solution of any problem that arose as a result of

Pool

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.

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’.

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.

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