Crypto Glossary

The coinbase is the content of the 'input' of a generation transaction. While regular transactions use the 'inputs' section to...

Chain split is another term used for Fork; to create an alternate version of the blockchain, leaving two blockchains to...

In cryptography, a brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of eventually guessing...

Bollinger Bands are a type of statistical chart characterizing the prices and volatility over time of a financial instrument or...

A sub-unit of one bitcoin. There are 1,000,000 bits in one bitcoin.

It is a way of letting users directly exchange one type of cryptocurrency for another, off-chain or on a different...

Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear as though it...

Short for ‘Application Specific Integrated Circuit’; it is a mining equipment that is used specifically to mine a certain cryptocurrency....

Arbitrage is a way of taking advantage of differences in the price of the same commodity in two or more...

Anarcho-capitalism is a political philosophy and modern school of anarchist thought that advocates the elimination of centralized state domination in...

If more than half the computing power on the network is in control of a single person or a group...

Diversification is the process of owning different investments in order to reduce the effects of volatility in a portfolio, and...