Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary
A complete list of crypto definitions
Cryptocurrency and blockchain glossary
Commonly used terms in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency
Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency
This is an investor, with strong hands, who, in spite of everything, holds coins. The term denotes a strong player in the market
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.
This is a copy of any token transferred from one blockchain to another.
There are many blockchains in the cryptocurrency industry: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos, Avalanche, etc. Blockchains are deprived of the opportunity to "understand each other": everyone acts according to their own rules and speaks their own language. Each blockchain has its own Native token - a coin that is used to pay for the commission:
for the Bitcoin network, this is bitcoin (BTC)
for Ethereum - ETH
For Cosmos - Atom
For Avalanche - Avax
If you want to carry out any actions, for example, send a USDT tokens to the EThereum network to another wallet, the commission will have to be paid in ETH tokens if Avalanche is an AVAX commission, etc. However, if you decide to send your USDT from Ethereum to Avalanche, your USDT will be lost. Why? Because USDT on the Ethereum and USDT network on Avalanche is not the same thing, because we remember that each blockchain lives according to its own rules.
And what to do if you urgently need to send your USDT from one network to another? For these purposes, cross -miners were invented - special applications that allow you to translate tokens from “one language to another”, that is, from one blockchain to another. In one network, the token is blocked, and in another - a copy is created that does not lose its original value. For example, if you transfer BTC from the Bitcoin network to Ethereum, it will become WBTC, i.e. wrapped.
The maximum value of the price for token for the entire period of its existence.
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Blockchain is most simply defined as a decentralized, distributed ledger technology that records the provenance of a digital asset.
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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