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Tag: Glossary

Glossary of commonly found crypto terms, acronyms, profiles, and useful resources.

Block

A block is the data archive of all transaction history made on a blockchain’s network within a given timeframe. Blocks are sequentially applied to a network’s data chain, forming the public database known as blockchain. A Bitcoin block, for example, includes information about the date, duration, and number of transfers, as well as signature information about the transfer’s origin and destination. Before a chain will begin...

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Fair Launch

The equal and open initial allocation of coins in a blockchain project is known as a fair launch. They are considered a good way to encourage decentralization and participation in the crypto community.

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Blockchain

A blockchain is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network of computers that maintains and verifies a public ledger of transactions using a consensus process to validate records. In a blockchain network, each computer keeps its own copy of the public database, making it virtually impossible for a single computer to change any previous transactions or for malicious actors to overload the network. Blockchain is the tech that underpins bitcoin,...

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Who is Bram Cohen?

Bram Cohen

A fundamental character for the crypto world for having developed the Peer to Peer system, one of the foundations of the current crypto world, since Bitcoin and almost all cryptocurrencies work with some version of the “Peer to Peer” protocol, or P2P. Who is Bram Cohen? Bram Cohen is an American programmer born in 1975, best known for being the famous author of the BitTorrent point-to-point (P2P) file exchange protocol, also...

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Who's Arthur Hayes?

Arthur Hayes

Who is Arthur Hayes? Arthur Hayes has a BA in economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where he lived until 2007, then went to Hong Kong to work as a stock derivatives trader for Deutsche Bank and Citigroup for 5 years. In 2013 he left Citigroup to invest in cryptocurrencies, mainly Bitcoin. Why is Arthur Hayes important in the crypto world? Arthur is the co-founder of BitMex,...

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