Unconfirmed
Unconfirmed

While the term “unconfirmed” is generic across all things that have yet to be affirmed by either one’s active agency of initiating or doing, this term is used in cryptocurrency trading to pertain to a…

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Unit of Account
Unit of Account

The Unit of Account pertains to a property of money. To be specific, it is a measurement for value. This may be related to fiat currency, cryptocurrencies, or any other financial instrument that allows for…

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Tangle
Tangle

The “Tangle” refers to a blockchain alternative developed by IOTA, the open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency. Tangle is a name for IOTAs Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) transaction settlement and data integrity layer. The Tangle is…

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Satoshi Nakamoto
Satoshi Nakamoto

In 2008, a whitepaper entitled, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, had been published by one Satoshi Nakamoto. The real identity of this individual had not been made public. Some even speculate that he is…

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Satoshi (SATS)
Satoshi (SATS)

Satoshi (SATS) refers to the smallest unit of Bitcoin. While the identity of the brainchild to Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, has yet to be revealed, the people behind the production and distribution of the coin named…

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Replicated Ledger
Replicated Ledger

Distributed across all participants in the global network of cryptocurrencies, a Replicated Ledger pertains to a copy of the distributed ledger. Such is beneficial to all participants in the cryptocurrency network and helps the cause…

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Raiden Network
Raiden Network

The Raiden Network refers to an off-chain scaling solution that aims at fostering payment schemes that are near-instant, cheap, and highly-scalable within the context of the Ethereum blockchain. By comparison, it is not unlike Bitcoin’s…

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Quantum Computing
Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing is an area in the field of Computing that delves in developing computer technology anchored in the principles of Quantum Theory. This explains the behaviour of energy and material within atomic and subatomic…

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QR Code
QR Code

An abbreviation for “Quick Response Code” the QR Code refers to a label that can be read by a machine. This type of matrix barcode shows information that is encoded into a graphical black-and-white pattern. …

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