The market capitalization shows the value of a company, market or sector at a point in time, it is commonly used to rank relative size. In equities, it refers to the total market value of a company's

ICO (Initial coin offering) is an unregulated means by which a cryptocurrency project, early stage, can raise money from supporters by issuing tokens. ICO is often referred to as a crowdsale as ICO

Segregated Witness is a process where the block size limit on a blockchain is increased by removing digital signature data and moving it to the end of a transaction to free up capacity. Essentially the

Lightning Network is a low latency, off chain P2P system for making micropayments of cryptocurrencies. Lightning Network offers features like instant payments, scalability, low cost and cross-chain

A token standard for Ethereum which ensures that the tokens perform in a predictable way. The standard allows the tokens to be easily exchangeable and able to work with decentralized applications that

Dapp Dapp (Decentralised application ) is a kind of application that is open source, operates autonomously, has its data stored on a blockchain, incentivised in the form of cryptographic tokens and operates

Wallet (Hardware/HD/Paper/Software) A physical or software object where you have a combination of public and private key stored. Hardware wallet: A hardware device which stores public and private keys

Confirmation When a Bitcoin transaction takes place, the blockchain confirms the transaction’s validity. The confirmation is done by miners every 10 minutes when a block is mined. It is always advised

Sharding is a type of scaling solution for blockchains. Generally, every node in a blockchain network houses a complete copy of the blockchain. Sharding is a method that allows nodes to have partial copies

A 51% attack is a situation where more than half of the network's hashpower is in the hands of a single individual or concentrated group. The "attacker(s)" would be able to prevent new transactions

A Proof of Stake system requires the prover to show ownership of a certain amount of money, or stake. Proof of Stake works similarly to PoW (Proof of Work) except that instead of computers validating the

When it comes to Proof of Work, computers on the network compete to solve mathematical formulas and win the right to confirm transactions into the blockchain, and thus, secure the network. The two major

The lessons I’ve learned since getting involved with cryptocurrencies Well, to tell you the truth, I don’t really have those amazing stories that you see in the headlines. I didn’t quite become a crypto

A fork is the permanent divergence of an alternative operating version of the current blockchain. Forks come into existence when: -a 51% attack occurs -a bug in the program -more commonly a new set of

SHA-256 is a member of the SHA-2 cryptographic hash functions designed by the NSA. SHA stands for Secure Hash Algorithm. Cryptographic hash functions are mathematical operations run on digital data; by

A node refers to any computer or other device that's running the Bitcoin client software and participates in the peer-to-peer network, which it supports through validation and relaying of transactions

Mining is the term used for discovering and solving blocks along the blockchain. A reward is given for solving the algorithm and lengthening the chain, called a mining reward. The mining reward for the

A distributed ledger is an agreement of shared, replicable and synchronized data, in this case spread across multiple networks, across many CPU’s. A central ledger is the opposite in that all of the data,

Halving is the reduction of mineable reward every so many blocks. The Bitcoin block mining reward halves every 210,000 blocks, the coin reward will decrease from 12.5 to 6.25 coins. Approximate blocks

ASIC mining is a crafty method of mining various coins at a much faster rate than any normal desktop or laptop might allow. Essentially what an ASIC, or Application Specific Integrated Circuit is, is a