Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary

Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency

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Food/ FAD

These are manipulations performed by some persons in order to spread obviously false or negative information, which will later cause a decrease in the rating of any project, the emergence of distrust of it or will contribute to the fall of the price of token.

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Stakeing

This is a way of obtaining passive earnings. This method is based on the Proof-OF-Stake algorithm. Its essence is to keep the tokens on the wallet to obtain the right to participate in the extraction of cryptocurrencies. Tokens are blocked for a certain period of time and are used to ensure the activity of the blockchain. The user receives awards for performing these actions. Steering is a kind of analogue of a bank deposit at a certain percentage.

Altcoin

An altcoin is any cryptocurrency or token created after the Bitcoin was developed.

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.

Sid Fraza

This is a set of 12–24 words in a certain order that generate private keys for wallets according to various algorithms. This phrase must be stored very reliably and not showed anyone.

Short

This is a transaction that is carried out in order to earn money to reduce the cost of a cryptocurrency asset. The algorithm of actions is as follows: 1) The trader believes that the price for token x will begin to fall in the near future, so it occupies a certain amount of these tokens on the bail of its own funds and immediately sells tokens X on the exchange 2) then patiently waits until the price for token x falls to a certain mark 3) As soon as this happens, the trader redeems X tokens at a lower price and returns their exchange Profit: The difference between the price of the sale and the purchase price.

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