Crypto Glossary

Nodes that download a blockchain’s entire history in order to observe and enforce its rules are called full nodes.

An acronym that stands for “fear, uncertainty, and doubt”. In crypto sphere, it means spreading fear, uncertainty or doubt about...

In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and...

Fear of missing out, or FOMO, is "a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one...

A digital code (generated and authenticated by public key encryption) which is attached to an electronically transmitted document to verify...

DPoS was developed by Daniel Larimer, founder of BitShares, Steemit, and EOS. It is a consensus mechanism where users can...

In finance, a dead cat bounce is a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock. Derived from...

The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks that use the Internet but...

A cypherpunk is any activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and...

Crypto-jacking is when you use another party’s computer to mine cryptocurrency without their consent.

Consensus usually refers to general agreement among the members of a group or community. In terms of crypto, it is...

Cold storage is an offline storage of cryptocurrencies, typically involving paper wallets, USBs, or offline computers.