Our cryptocurrency glossary helps you decipher crypto jargon back into plain English. Learn the terms that you’ll come across on your crypto journey.
An acronym for Fear, Uncertainly, Doubt. It’s pronounced like the world “mud”. FUD is a label given to negative news, market analysis, and opinions about anything related to cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrency is digital money. Digital money, transacting over the Internet, open up a world of investment opportunities As a digital tradeable asset, thousands of cryptocurrencies are...
Much like miners in a Proof-of-Work(PoW) network, they are network nodes that operate in Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchains, also validating transaction blocks to the blockchain. Validators are generally picked at random, based on the amount of cryptocurrency they are willing to stake or lock up in a smart contract, to win the rights to validation. This is different than the competition-style mechanism like Proof-of-Work (PoW)
Vitalik Buterin is best known for being a co-founder of Ethereum, along with co-founders Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin. In 2013, Buterin first published his ideas behind Ethereum in a whitepaper, proposing that Bitcoin (BTC) lacked a scripting language for application development. He also co-founded Bitcoin Magazine in 2011, later becoming its leading writer.
Volatility is the measure of fluctuation in an asset’s price over some period of time. If you’ve ever watched a cryptocurrency price chart, you’ll notice the crypto prices shift dramatically, up and down, sometimes in a matter of minutes. This is an example of the volatile nature of cryptocurrency prices, which are more volatile compared […]
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.George Soros