This page gathers the 57 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Cryptocurrencies”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- airdrop noun The distribution of free tokens to help bootstrap a new cryptocurrency.
- block time noun The average time it takes for the network to generate one extra block in the blockchain.
- burning noun The purposeful removal of certain number of coins in circulation, by sending them to a public address where the private keys cannot be…
- coin noun Ellipsis of cryptocoin; a cryptocurrency.
- coiner noun A person who invests in or advocates for cryptocurrencies.
- coinless adj Not tied to a particular cryptocurrency.
- cold storage noun A place where private keys are stored away from the Internet to prevent them from being stolen.
- cross-chain adj Occurring one more than one blockchain.
- crypto noun Clipping of cryptocurrency
- cryptocurrency wallet noun A device, program or a service which stores the public or private keys for cryptocurrency transactions.
- cryptosphere noun The cryptocurrency community.
- cryptowinter noun A prolonged period in the cryptocurrency market characterized by sharply falling prices, low trading volumes, and decreased investor…
- depegging noun A situation where a stablecoin loses its fixed value and trades at a price that is significantly different from its intended peg.
- digital gold noun A cryptocurrency seen as a safe store of value.
- digital scarcity noun A limitation, imposed through software, of digital information; in particular, the limitation on the total supply of a cryptocurrency or…
- dogecoin noun A cryptocurrency featuring the Shiba Inu from the "doge" meme as its logo.
- dust verb To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
- ether noun A unit of the Ethereum digital currency, ETH.
- flippening noun The event of a cryptocurrency becoming dominant over another cryptocurrency or traditional currency.
- fork noun A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- funge verb To steal an NFT; to copy the image or other data associated with the NFT.
- gas noun An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- gas fee noun A fee levied on users of the Ethereum network to compensate for the computing energy required to process and validate transactions.
- hard fork noun A rule change of a blockchain such that the software validating according to the old rules will see the blocks produced according to the…
- hash noun One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also…
- hashrate noun The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.
- hot wallet noun A cryptocurrency wallet which has its private key stored on the network so that it can be used for frequent transactions.
- jeet noun An investor who is extremely risk-averse and will sell off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.
- jeetery noun The practice of an investor who sells off their holdings at the slightest hint of a downturn.
- ledger noun A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
- liquidity pool noun cryptocurrency assets that are kept to facilitate the trading of trading pairs on decentralized exchanges
- liquidity provider noun A decentralized exchange user who funds a liquidity pool with tokens that they own to facilitate trading on the platform and earn passive…
- mainchain noun A blockchain with one or more sidechains attached to it.
- mine verb To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- miner noun Software or hardware that mines, or creates new units of cryptocurrency.
- mining noun Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.
- mint verb To create a crypto token.
- mixer noun Synonym of tumbler.
- moon verb To rise in price rapidly or suddenly. (from to the moon)
- multisig adj Of a cryptocurrency wallet: requiring two or more signatures from different private keys in order to complete a transaction.
- oracle noun A third-party service that provides smart contracts with information from the outside world.
- ordinal noun A unique serial number assigned to a satoshi based on its position in the blockchain.
- paper wallet noun A collection of pieces of paper written or printed with credentials needed to spend one’s cryptocoins.
- proof of stake noun A process for transaction verification on a blockchain which does not require energy-intensive mining.
- proof of work noun A form of cryptographic proof in which a prover proves to verifiers that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been…
- rug pull verb To carry out a rug-pull.
- side chain noun A separate blockchain attached to a parent blockchain (mainchain) to extend its functionalities.
- stake verb To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
- staker noun One who participates in proof of stake.
- testnet noun A network of servers able to facilitate cryptocurrency transactions, created for the purpose of testing or experimentation.
- to the moon intj An aspirational or rallying call for confidence that the value of a cryptocurrency will greatly increase in the future.
- token noun A digital asset that is created and managed on an existing blockchain using a smart contract.
- token economy noun An economy based on cryptocurrency tokens.
- tokenomics noun The economics of the NFT market or the cryptocoin market more generally.
- trustless adj Which does not need any trust, or a trusted third party.
- tumble verb To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- tumbler noun A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for…