Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Dictionary

Terms commonly used in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency

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Diamond Hands

This is an investor, with strong hands, who, in spite of everything, holds coins. The term denotes a strong player in the market

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TIR

The degree of steepness/reliability/profitability of cryptocurrency funds - for example, TIR -1 is the coolest, shooting room -2 - less cool and so on

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’.

Market Order

Order (application) for quick purchase/sale at the current market price. For example: a market order for sale will correspond to the cheapest limit order for a purchase available in an exchange glass. The warrant will pass throughout the glass until it is closed according to your volume, so do not forget to look at liquidity.

Long

This is a transaction that is carried out in order to earn money to increase 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 grow in the near future, so he buys a certain number of these tokens on the exchange 2) then patiently waits until the price for token x grows to a certain mark 3) As soon as this happens, the trader sells tokens x at a higher price Profit: The difference between the price of the sale and the purchase price.

Insight

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

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