Security Token
Security Token: A digital representation of a tradable asset or a utility on a blockchain that derives its value from that asset.
Bitcoin Taproot/Schnorr
Bitcoin Taproot/Schnorr upgrade: A Soft Fork proposed for the Bitcoin blockchain to improve fungibility, functionality of Smart Contracts, and privacy by making all transactions appear the same to external blockchain observers.
Ethereum Ice Age
Ethereum Ice Age: A mining difficulty adjustment that was proposed to ensure the whole Ethereum blockchain community switches from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism.
Liquid Network
Liquid Network: A parallel network that runs as a sidechain of Bitcoin enabling fast and confidential transactions of large amounts of cryptocurrency.
Lightning Network
Lightning Network: The second layer protocol on a blockchain like Bitcoin that solves scalability issue enabling users to make fast and small cryptocurrency transactions.
Bitcoin Halving
Halving: A process of dividing the generated reward for mining the cryptocurrency like Bitcoin block in half.
Wallet
Wallet: A storage for private and public blockchain keys to access, receive, or spend cryptocurrencies.
Mining
Mining: Using computational power to solve complex cryptographic algorithms on a blockchain in order to get block rewards in a form of digital coins.
Litecoin (LTC)
Litecoin (LTC): The first altcoin – cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin – created as a result of the first successful Hard Fork of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Tether (USDT)
Tether (USDT): A fiat collateralized stablecoin which value is backed by the US dollar issued by Tether Limited.