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CryptoAssets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
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Glossary of Terms
Altcoin: Any crypto-currency other than Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Capitulation: When investors give up any previous gains by selling their positions during periods of declines. A market correction or bear market often leads investors to capitulate or panic sell.
Dollar-cost averaging is an investment technique which involves buying a fixed dollar amount of a particular investment on a regular schedule, regardless of the price. As a result you end up purchasing more when prices are low and fewer shares when prices are high. For example, you could commit to add $500 to your retirement fund every month... or buy $300 worth of crypto every month.
Dump/Dumping: Selling away your coins/Downward price movements due to increase selling pressure.
Exchange. Websites where you can buy and sell crypto. Some popular exchanges in the US are Coinbase and Bitrex, Bitflyer in Japan. For a full list of exchanges visit https://list.wiki/Cryptocurrency_Exchanges
FIAT is government-issued currency, such as the US dollar, Japanese yen or the Euro.
FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out. This is a rookie mistake where a coin is skyrocketing and you get the feeling it’s gonna pump more, so you buy at the peak (like many did in bitcoins ascent in 2017)
JOMO: Joy Of Missing Out. Opposite of FOMO. You can’t make every investment, so once you make a decision to invest, don’t regret not making other investments.
Limit order / limit buy / limit sell. Orders placed on an exchange to buy or sell a crypto-currency when the price meets a certain amount.
Dead Cat Bounce: A temporary recovery in prices after a huge decrease
HODL: a misspelling of “hold”, means to not sell your cryptocurrencies; alternatively described as meaning Hold On for Dear Life;
ICO. Initial Coin Offering, somewhat similar to an IPO in the non-crypto world. Startups issue their own token in exchange for ether. This is essentially crowdfunding on the ethereum platform.
Market cap: the total value of a cryptocurrency network, calculated by multiplying the total supply of coins by the current price of an individual unit.
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Margin trading: an act of ‘magnifying’ the intensity of your trades by risking your existing coins, often equated to gambling, and forbidden on many exchanges;
Mining: the process of trying to ‘solve’ the next block to obtain an amount of cryptocurrency. In many cases it requires huge amounts of computer processing power
Public key / private key. A cryptographic code that allows a user to receive cryptocurrencies into an account. The public key is made available to everyone via a publicly accessible directory, and the private key remains confidential to its respective owner. Because the key pair is mathematically related, whatever is encrypted with a public key may only be decrypted by its corresponding private key.
Pump & Dump: Price manipulation by whales or collectives. The most famous group is the Palm Beach pump and dump group. Stay clear.
Rekt is a slang version of "wrecked" that refers to losing a lot of your money.
Sidechains are emerging mechanisms that allow tokens and other digital assets from one blockchain to be securely used in a separate blockchain and then be moved back to the original blockchain if needed.
TA: Technical Analysis, or the analysis of prices based on historical price movements and fancy indicators
Tokens - Refers to the ‘currency’ of projects built on the ethereum network that have raised money via issuing their own tokens. Examples:
0x – ZRX REP – Augur BAT – Basic Attention Token ICN – Iconomi
Shilling / pumping. Someone essentially advertising another crypto-currency. If a coin is promised to cure cancer or be the second coming of Jesus, it’s being shilled.
Stable coin. A crypto-currency with extremely low volatility that can be used to trade against the overall market.
Wallet: storage of 'keys', or codes, needed to access and use one’s coins. There are online (“hot”) wallets and offline (“cold”) wallets;
Whale - someone who own absurd amounts of cryptocurrency.
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