A

Airdrop

A way to promote cryptocurrencies by sending some free tokens to traders.

 

Algorithm

The algorithm is a set of rules to follow to solve a problem or conduct a task.

 

All-Time-High (ATH)

The highest point (in price, in market capitalization) that a cryptocurrency has been in history.

 

All-Time-Low (ATL)

The lowest point (in price, in market capitalization) that a cryptocurrency has been in history.

 

Altcoin

Coins alternative to Bitcoin.

 

Application Programming Interface (API)

It is a software that acts like an intermediary or a bridge that lets two applications talk to each other. It is the one that lets applications, data, and devices interact.

 

Arbitrage

A strategy where investors buy currency in a market and sell it at a higher price in another market to gain profit.

 

ASIC Resistant

A term used to describe cryptocurrency proof-of-work protocols that are resistant to Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), by packing in various parameters that make it difficult for ASICs to have a competitive edge against consumer hardware.

 

Ask Me Anything (AMA)

Ask me anything refers to actions where individuals of certain profession (eg. fireman, nurse, journalists) or company (eg. CEO of Tesla) conduct a session for users to ask them questions.

 

Atomic SWAP

Atomic Swap refers to the exchange of cryptocurrencies that operate in different blockchains without intermediaries.

 

A-shares

A-shares, also known as RMB common shares, refer to those common shares registered in the Chinese mainland and listed on the Chinese stock market, which are subscribed and traded in RMB. A-shares are not physical stocks, with paperless electronic bookkeeping, the implementation of a "Tunable 1" delivery system, there are limits on rising and fall, and the participating investors are Chinese institutions or individuals.

 

Advanced Encryption Standard(AES)

Advanced Encryption Standard in Cryptography, also known as the Rijndael encryption method, is a block encryption standard adopted by the federal government of the United States. 

 

dd positions

The act of continuing to buy a stock as the price of the stock falls or rises because it continues to be bullish.

 

Alliance chain

Only for the members of a specific group and a limited number of third parties, a number of pre-selected nodes are designated as bookkeepers, and the generation of each block is determined by all the pre-selected nodes.

 

ASIC Resistant

Commonly used in the encrypted world to describe workload proof protocols designed to prevent mining using ASIC.

 

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)

Refers to specialized computers that are made to do a very specific task (eg. calculate hashes for Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work).

 

 

B

Bearish

negative sentiment towards a market, believing an asset will increase in price.

 

Bear Market

Contrary to the bull market, it indicates the direction of the market going for a downward trend.

 

Bitcoin ATM

A machine from which you can buy or sell Bitcoin. Typically also offers different types of cryptocurrencies.

 

Block

In the context of blockchain, block refers to the collection of transactional data or information that are bundled together in a predetermined size.

 

Blockchain

In Bitcoin's case, blockchain describes its decentralized, public ledger which contains transactional information.

 

Block Confirmation

This refers to the number of confirmation a particular block has. Each block ahead of the referenced block adds one block confirmation to it.

 

Block Explorer

Application or websites which display information such as status of transactions or data contained in a block of a given public blockchain network.

 

Block Height

A number that is used to indicated the position of a particular block within a blockchain

 

Block Reward

One of the mechanisms built into a blockchain to incentivize validators.

 

Bots

Refers to software or programs that automatically trade based on preset behaviors.

 

Bullish

positive sentiment towards a market, believing an asset will increase in price.

 

Bull Market

A bull market indicates the direction of the market going for an upward trend.

 

Burned Tokens

Tokens that have been sent to addresses whose private key is not known, effectively becoming unusable.

 

Buy the F***in Dip (BTFD)

An encouraging rally by asset/cryptocurrency supporters to buy during a price decline.

 

Buy wall

Anomalously large buy order(s) at a single price point that reflects as a "wall" in the order book.

 

Byzantine Fault

A Byzantine fault is where an error has occurred, yet a computer system does not know due to which component/what failed to the lack of information and continues to iterate on given instruction.

 

Byzantine Generals’ Problem

A term used to describe the situation a single strategy that requires consensus from all members within a group who cannot be trusted or verified.

 

B/L

Bill of lading is a kind of document with legal effect.

 

Bit system

Bit system is a layer-by-layer nested, non-stop, very powerful timestamp system, which uses timestamps to ensure that each block is linked into a "chain" in chronological order.

 

Burst the warehouse(爆仓）

The loss exceeded the unoccupied funds in the margin.

 

Bitcoin ATM

Bitcoin ATM refers to the automatic teller machine (ATM) that uses bitcoin to exchange and trade, or BTM for short. Users can pay from the machine to buy/sell a cryptocurrency, which can be purchased but cannot be exchanged for cash.

 

Bitcoin preacher

Bitcoin is an individual who is passionate and committed to spreading knowledge about Bitcoin. 

 

Block browser

A block browser is an application or website that displays network transaction information and status for a given public blockchain. 

 

Blockade reward

In the context of Bitcoin, one of the mechanisms built into its protocol is to have so-called block rewards to encourage users to protect the network.

 

Black Swan incident

This refers to a very unpredictable and unusual event that usually causes a chain of negative reactions or even subversion in the market. 

 

Blockchain service network

Most of them are blockchain institutions at the national level, which help enterprises with blockchain needs to deploy blockchain services, then security must be guaranteed.

 

C

Centralized

An organization structure wherein a small handful of actors have control over the entire network.

 

Circulating supply

An approximation of the number of coins or tokens that are currently not locked and available for public transactions.

 

Cloud Mining

Mining on blockchains through rented processing power rented from companies that host the physical equipment.

 

Cold Storage

Offline storage of cryptocurrencies which is arguably safer as they also require physical access (eg. hardware wallet, paper wallets).

 

Cold Wallet

Wallets that are offline and require physical access to certain devices (eg. hardware wallet, paper wallets).

 

Consensus

The consensus is achieved in a blockchain system when all participants agree on the content of the next block that will be added onto the blockchain.

 

Crypto Bubble

It is a speculation in the cryptocurrencies and the price of cryptocurrencies would go extremely high before the bubble bursts.

 

Cryptography

A discipline or field of study which practices using cryptography to convert human-readable information that can only be deciphered by individuals who have the knowledge to.

 

Consensus mechanism

The consensus mechanism is to complete the verification and confirmation of the transaction in a very short time through the voting of special nodes; for a transaction, if several nodes with unrelated interests can reach a consensus, we can think that the whole network can also reach a consensus on this.consensus process.

 

Callback

Prices rose too fast and temporarily fell back, known as a pullback.

 

Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a kind of digital currency (or virtual currency). It is a medium of exchange that uses cryptographic principles to ensure the security of transactions and to control the creation of trading units.

 

Collectively Maintain

The system is maintained by a large number of institutions or individuals who are willing to maintain, and each organization and individual is a maintenance point. The maintenance points in the Bitcoin system are usually miners.

 

Cross-connection technology

Cross-chain technology can be understood as a bridge connecting each blockchain, and its main application is to realize the atomic transaction between each blockchain, the conversion of assets, the exchange of information within the blockchain, or to solve the problem of Oracle and so on. 

 

Cold wallet

In popular terms, a cold wallet is a wallet that stores digital money offline. Players generate a digital currency address and private key on an offline wallet and then save it. The cold wallet stores digital currency without any network, so it is impossible for hackers to enter the wallet to get the private key. 

 

Close the position

Closing a position is an act of buying or selling, which specifically refers to the act of buying or selling a position. 

 

Consolidation

Price changes are relatively small and stable, and there is little difference between the highest price and the lowest price.

 

Candies

It refers to transactions that occur outside the blockchain and are executed immediately.

 

D

Decentralized

A system where there are no centralized points of failure or organization with no central authority figure.

 

Decentralized applications (dApps)

Applications that run on decentralized peer-to-peer networks such as Ethereum.

 

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)

Open source and decentralized systems that do not require centralized operators or controllers.

 

Decentralized Finance (Defi)

Decentralized Finance (Defi) refers to the movement of building decentralized financial applications that have no central authority and is censorship-free.

 

Decryption

The process of decrypting data that was previously encrypted (made unreadable) back to a readable form.

 

Derivatives

A financial instrument that derives its value from the performance of an underlying asset or index (eg. gold, crude oil).

 

Derivatives Market

A market for derivatives which are instruments such as futures or options whose value is derived from an underlying asset.

 

Double spending

Double spending refers to the act of spending digital currencies twice. This is most commonly applied to crypto exchanges by unscrupulous actors.

 

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

Directed acyclic graphs refer to a data structure that is built in one single direction, yet branches out and never repeat.

 

Do Your Own Research (DYOR)

A piece of advice for investors to do their own research on the coins they wanted to invest in.

 

Dump

A common term used to describe the downward market movement, or to describe the action of selling an individual's holdings.

 

Difficulty

A relative measure of how difficult it is to correctly guess a new block.

 

Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

Directed acyclic graphs refer to a data structure that is built in one single direction, yet branches out and never repeat.

 

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack

A common cyber-attack tactic where a perpetrator diverts large amounts of traffic towards a particular network or service in an effort to disrupt normal services.

 

Distributed Ledger

Ledgers whose data is stored and synced across a network of nodes.

 

Drainage scheme

The development team (or short-term traders) trumpeted the project's plans without a basic basis to temporarily raise the price of tokens and then sell their holdings immediately after the issue to make a profit. 

 

Distributed network

Processing power and data are distributed on nodes rather than a network with centralized data centers. 

 

Double flower problem

That is, double payment, that is, a sum of money is spent two, three, many times. 

 

Death crossover

Death crossover means that the short-term moving average in decline passes through the falling long-term moving average from top to bottom, when the support line is broken down, indicating that the stock price will continue to fall and the market will be bearish.

 

Double expenditure

Double expenditure refers to the act of consuming digital money twice.

 

Digging ore

Mining is a nickname for the way bitcoin is explored. The process of using computer hardware to calculate the location of coins and obtain them is called mining.

 

Descending channel

Same as the principle of the rising channel, the trend is the opposite, the exchange rate fluctuates up and down in a rectangular channel with a downward trend, going lower and lower.

 

Derivatives trading

Derivatives trading is a contract whose value depends on changes in the value of the underlying asset.

 

Dominance

In the cryptocurrency world, dominance usually refers to the degree of dominance of a particular cryptocurrency relative to other cryptocurrencies for a given parameter.

 

E

ERC-20

ERC-20 is one of the most widely used token standards in Ethereum to create fungible, exchangeable tokens.

 

ERC-721

ERC-721 is one of the most widely used token standards in Ethereum to create.

 

Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)

Refers to improvement proposals for Ethereum, used to introduce features, or any updates on the Ethereum network.

 

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)

Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) is the environment in which all smart contracts are executed.

 

F

Full node

Full Nodes are computers that verify the set of rules that are built into the protocols of a given cryptocurrency.

 

Futures

An agreement between two counterparties that obligates them to transact in the future based on the contract terms set.

 

Floating surplus

That is, the cost is lower than the market price, but because it has not yet been sold in the securities market, it can not make a profit from the market, so it can only be called a floating surplus. The profit seen in books.

 

Futures contract

A futures contract is a binding agreement between a buyer and a seller to deliver (seller) and (buyer) the underlying commodity (or financial instrument) on a specified future date under agreed terms of payment.

 

G

Grade place

grade place, also known as a block, abacus terminology. Refers to the block assigned to the unit of calculation, now refers to the order of change. 

 

Go high and reduce positions

This refers to the behavior that when the stock price is bought when the stock price is low when the stock price moves in a range, it touches the upper track of the range and sells part of the stock bought at a low level to make a profit. 

 

Grey rhinoceros

It is a metaphor for a potential crisis with high probability and great influence.

 

H

Halving

The event that serves to reduce in half the reward of the Proof-of-Work miners that operate in the blockchain network.

 

Hard fork

It is a permanent divergence of a blockchain into two blockchains. The original blockchain does not recognize the new version.

 

Hash

A hash function is an output code (unique and alphanumeric) that we obtain from an input string.

 

Hashrate

The total processing power of a blockchain or what is the same is the number of hash values that can be made in a period of time.

 

Hyperledger (Hyperledger Foundation)

Hyperledger is an open-source project launched by the Linux Foundation in 2015 to promote blockchain digital technology and transaction verification. Through the creation of general distributed ledger technology, assist organizations to expand and establish industry-specific applications, platforms and hardware systems to support members' respective trading business.

 

Hash tree

The hash tree is a tree data structure, in which each leaf node is labeled with the hash of the data block, while the non-leaf node is labeled with the encrypted hash of its child node label.

 

Handbag

A person who holds large amounts or bags of cryptocurrency. When the price of that cryptocurrency falls, it is usually used to describe such people. 

 

I

Intelligent contract

A smart contract is a commitment agreement defined by a computer program and executed automatically. It is a set of transaction quasi-side executed by code, similar to the automatic repayment function of the credit card. 

 

Index

The index generally represents the overall performance of the market, it is more like a road sign, through the road when you come to tell you where you will go in the future.

 

K

KYC (Know Your Customer)

KYC stands for "Know Your Customer", a process for business entities that are required to verify its clients and assessing them.

 

Key derivative function script

Considering the large-scale customized hardware attacks, deliberate design requires a lot of memory operations. In 2016, the script algorithm was released on RFC 7914. The simplified version of the script is used for proof of workload (Proof-of-Work) in several cryptographic currencies.

 

L

Ledger

A record of financial transactions that cannot be changed only appended with new transactions.

 

Leverage

It is an investment strategy to gain the potential return of the investment by borrowing the money.

 

Look on

When the direction of the index is not clear, further decisions will be made when the situation is clear. 

 

Leverage ratio

This refers to the rise and fall of the net value of the enterprising share when the net value of the parent fund rises or falls by 1%. 

 

Leverage

An investment strategy to obtain a potential return on investment by borrowing money.

 

Lightning network

The purpose of the Lightning Network is to carry out off-chain transactions securely. In essence, Lightning Network is a mechanism that uses hash time lock smart contracts to securely carry out zero-confirmation transactions. By setting ingenious "smart contracts", it makes unconfirmed transactions on Lightning Network as safe as gold.

 

Long head

It means that investors are bullish on the stock market and expect the stock price to rise, so they buy the stock at a low price and sell it when the stock rises to a certain price in order to get a differential return. 

 

Long market

The main feature of the change in the stock price of the long market is a series of ups and downs. 

 

Leveraged trading

Leveraged trading is a way of trading assets using funds provided by third parties. Compared with regular trading accounts, leveraged trading accounts can give traders more money and support them to use their positions. 

 

M

Miners

Contributors to a blockchain taking part in the process of mining.

 

Mining

It is the process of the miners verify and adding transaction records into a block.

 

Mining Contract

Another term for cloud mining, where users can rent or invest in mining capacity online.

 

Multisignal (multi-signature)

They are wallets that require more than one key for transactions to be authorized.

 

Mortgage loan

Refers to a loan made with the property of the borrower or a third party as collateral in the prescribed form of a mortgage.

 

Mempool

It is the abbreviation of Memory Pool. A set of unconfirmed transactions in a blockchain. Each time a transaction is made, it goes directly into the memory pool, and then the miner conducts a trading group to build the block. 

 

Market price order

An order to buy or sell a futures contract at the best price.

 

Microtransaction

Microtransaction is a system that made very small payments possible in buying the common digital goods and services, such as purchasing items in a game.

 

Mainchain

The term "main chain" comes from the main network (mainnet, relative to the test network test net), that is, officially launched, an independent blockchain network. 

 

N

Node

Within the blockchain network, the nodes are computers that connect to the network and have an updated copy of the blockchain.

 

Negative premium

The price that is less than the original price is a negative premium. In the absence of transaction costs and the assumption that the stock price does not rise or fall, the total exercise cost (exercise price + adjusted warrant price) is lower than the market price of the underlying stock, and there is some room for arbitrage.

 

O

Open Source

Open-source software is a type of software released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

 

Oversold

Oversold because of the sharp fall in prices. 

 

Overbought

Overbought because of the sharp rise in prices.

 

Over-the-counter trading (OTC)

It refers to the process of trading cryptocurrency on an external exchange, which is done directly between the two parties. 

 

P

Private Keys

The alphanumeric string which allows transactions from the cryptocurrency address.

 

Public Keys

The alphanumeric string which serves as a public receiving address in cryptocurrencies.

 

Parietal deviation

It means that when the stock trend on the stock price K chart is higher than the peak, the stock price has been rising, while the trend of the graph composed of red columns on the MACD index graph is lower than the peak, that is, when the high point of the stock price is higher than the previous high, and the high point of the MACD index is lower than the previous high, this is called top deviation phenomenon.

 

Peer-to-peer network (P2P)

The peer-to-peer computer network is a distributed application architecture that distributes tasks and workloads among peer-to-peer (Peer). It is a form of networking or network formed by a peer-to-peer computing model in the application layer. 

 

Pricing

The price of a futures contract is the amount of cash a person needs to buy or sell the underlying asset before the maturity date.

 

Private chain

All the nodes in the network are in the hands of one organization, which is called a private chain. 

 

Position

The amount of money owed by a financial unit. The income is larger than the call long position, the income is less than the call short position, the balance of income and expenditure is called rolling (g á) position, and borrowing money to make up for the difference is called opening position.

 

Permission chain

Private chain and alliance chains are collectively called license chains, that is, only specific subjects with authority are qualified to record information, while the public chain is called a non-license chain, that is, everyone is entitled to participate in information recording.

 

Price limit order

An order to buy or sell a futures contract at a fixed price.

 

Premium

Premium means that the actual amount paid exceeds the nominal value or par value of a security or stock.

 

Pressure level

The pressure level refers to the fact that when the stock price is under pressure during the rise, the stock price will fall (the maximum of a certain area in the graph). 

 

Prophecy machine

The prophecy machine is a trusted entity that introduces information about the state of the outside world through signatures, thus allowing certain intelligent contracts to respond to the uncertain outside world. The prophecy machine has the characteristics of untameable, stable service, auditable, and so on, and has the power of economic incentive mechanism to ensure the operation.

 

Pledge rate

The pledge rate is the ratio of the amount lent to the pledged goods, that is, the loan ratio/borrowing money ratio.

 

positive contract

The positive contract is a stable currency contract. For example, do contract transactions with USDT or French Bitcoin.

 

Pledge loan

A pledged loan refers to a loan issued as a pledge on the movable property or rights of the borrower or a third party in the prescribed way of pledge.

 

Public chain

Public chain refers to the blockchain in which transactions can be read and sent by anyone in the world, and can be effectively confirmed, and can also participate in the consensus process.

 

R

Rebound

The price shows a continuous downward trend, and the adjustment phenomenon that eventually reverses to a certain price level because of the price falling too fast is called a rebound.

 

Reverse contract

Open and close positions through the subject matter currency standard of the contract, for example, if you want to operate a BTC/USDT contract, then you need to use BTC to open and issue an order, and finally settle through BTC. If you want to trade the Ether Fong contract, you have to own it. 

 

Reliable Database

Every user in the system has the latest complete copy of the database, and it is not effective to modify a single user's database to ensure that the data will not be tampered with, just like if your parents recognize your bitcoin account address. they can track your account from their own database.

 

S

Seed

A value used to initiate generation of a pseudorandom number, usually a string of 12 common English words.

 

Soft fork

A backward-compatible update to a decentralized blockchain protocol.

 

Sell wall

Anomalously large sell order(s) at a single price point that reflects as a "wall" in the order book.

 

Stop-loss order

A conditional market order to sell at the next available price, executed if the price of an asset falls below the set-upon limit.

 

Step back

Before the price goes up, the main force (the main force: the person who determines the trend of the price), in order to verify that the support of a certain price level is really effective, take the initiative to fall to that place to re-verify whether the support is effective. 

 

Short selling

Short selling the opposite of long, refers to investors without holding securities or financial products under the premise (there is no ownership of securities or financial products! Sell securities or financial products and buy them when the price falls to a certain price in order to earn the difference.

 

Southward fund

Southward capital, of course, is the southward inflow of funds into the Hong Kong market.

 

Sandboxie experiment

Do an experiment in a specific place, take it out and promote it to the public when it's done, and bury it in the sand if you lose.

 

SHA-256

A cryptographic hash function that generates a 256bit signature for text and is used to prove (PoW) for bit workload. It stands for "secure hash algorithm" and is one of the SHA-2 algorithms, designed by NSA for the first time.

 

Stable currency

A stable currency is a kind of digital asset born against the volatility of digital assets.

 

Satoshi Nakamoto

The pseudonym used in publishing the Bitcoin Whitepaper. Identity is unknown.

 

Smart contract

A smart contract is a commitment agreement defined by a computer program and executed automatically. It is a set of transaction quasi-side executed by code, similar to the automatic repayment function of a credit card.

 

T

Token

Blockchain-based unit of value issued by an organization, which grants token holders a right to participate in a network.

 

Token Burn

An event in which tokens are verifiably removed permanently removed from circulation.

 

Turing-Complete

A "Turing complete" code or blockchain refers to the ability to read program-written codes.

 

Timestamp

A timestamp refers to a string of encoded information used to identify a recorded time and date. The international standard is ISO 8601.

 

Two-way position/lock position

Two-way position/lock generally means that after the sale and purchase agreement, when the market has a trend opposite to their own operation, investors open a new position opposite to their original position, also known as a pair of locks, locks, or even butterflies.

 

U

Unspent Transaction Output

(abbv. "UXTO") Coins that are unspent in the wallet. Unto virtually represents the cryptocurrency one owns in the wallet.

 

Underlying assets

The underlying asset refers to the assets agreed in the derivative contract, which refers to the financial instruments or commodities that the option holder can buy or sell in the exercise of his right. The underlying assets of futures contracts provide "hard value" for transactions.

 

Unlink

It refers to transactions that occur outside the blockchain and are executed immediately.

 

V

Vulva line

The negative line refers to the Kline where the opening price is higher than the closing price. The K chart is generally marked with light blue to indicate that the stock has fallen. When the closing price is lower than the opening price, that is, the stock price shows a downward trend, the Kline, in this case, is a negative line. 

 

W

Wallet

Software client that handles storage of cryptocurrencies and allows users to send cryptocurrencies.

 

Wei

The smallest fraction of an Ether, with each Ether to 1000000000000000000 Wei.

 

Y

Yang line

The positive line is the Kline in the stock market where the closing price is higher than the opening price. The rising trend is indicated by red lines in the K chart.

 

Z

Zero-Knowledge Proof

Cryptographic proof for 2 parties to verify a value without revealing what the value is.

 

 

 

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