P2P crypto exchanges simply remove the middlemen, the core strength of Bitcoin’s design. Allowing users to buy/sell directly with each other without any trusted third-party to help carrying out transactions.
It is this 🤓 miners strong believe and best practice that privacy and security matter, then P2P exchanges will likely be a better option than the regular exchanges for handling your cryptocurrency!
Peer-to-peer bitcoin exchanges offer anonymous ways to buy and sell Bitcoin with a wide range of payment methods.
It’s no surprise that the P2P marketplaces have grown considerably in recent years.
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If you are new to cryptocurrencies, you might find the topic a bit confusing due to the terminology involved. Just refer to this page when you see an unfamiliar word or phrase.
A
ADDRESS – a cryptocurrency address is a string, containing numbers and letters, from which you can send and receive crypto payments.
ALGORITHM – kit of rules, which are solving a problem via calculations, using a computer. It’s encrypting and transferring data, which makes it mining’s base when it comes to extracting cryptocurrencies.
ASIC – (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) a dedicated mining device, which is able to extract coins, working with on one particular algorithm.
ASIC-RESISTANCE – memory hard algorithms that are hardly cooperating with ASICs, because they are built to be resistance to this kind of devices.
ATTACK 51% – a miner possess 51% of the pool’s hash rate, so he’s able to manipulate the network.
B
BANDWIDTH – the maximum capacity of the network to transmit data.
BLOCK – a piece of the blockchain, containing transactions.
BLOCKCHAIN – a public ledger, which contains lots of data, encrypted in separate block in the form of hashes (messages). Considered immutable and unable to manipulate.
BLOCK HEADER – a string long 80 bytes, which miners hash with the nonce to find the solution of the block.
BLOCK REWARD – this is what a miner gets for successfully calculating a valid hash in the block when performing a mining process.
BLOCK SIZE – this is a limit of bytes that the block might contain (also limits of transactions in one piece).
BLOCK TIME – the average time needed to find a block’s solutions. It’s different for each coin.
BLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION – the time requested for the blockchain to sync with your device (for full nodes usually).
C
CENTRALIZATION – an organization or system, which is controlled by a central authority.
CLOUD MINING – performing a mining process via rented hashing power from a third-party provider.
COIN – a term used to describe units of blockchain value.
CONFIRMATION – the process of validating if a transaction is including on the blockchain.
CONSENSUS – a rule all participant agrees on when operating on the same network.
CONTRIBUTION SHARE – the hash rate a miner puts into the pool to contribute.
CPU – (Central Processing Unit) a processor, which coordinates the work of all the other part of a computer.
D
DAO (Decentralized Anonymous Organization) – organization running smart contracts.
DIFFICULTY – a measure of how difficult might be to mine a new block.
DIFFICULTY BOMB – malicious attack, increasing difficulty that much, that the reward doesn’t cover the expenses to mine.
DISTRIBUTION – percentage of each pool from all the ones available in the network for this coin.
DOUBLE SPENDING – general issue of the decentralized conception or spending a same amount twice.
DOWNTIME – a period when a machine isn’t working.
E
EXCHANGE – a platform to buy, trade and sell cryptocurrencies.
F
FIAT MONEY – national currency of a central government.
FORK – changing in the rules of the consensus, which might be able to exist with the old established rules (soft fork) or not (hard fork).
FPGA – a modern mining device, improving the ASIC, which can mine coins from one particular algorithm. The interesting here is that you can modify it to mine a different algorithm if you decide to change the coin you mine.
FULL NODE – storing the blockchain data locally on your PC.
G
GAINS – increasing profits (reward).
GENESIS BLOCK – the first block, computationally created in the blockchain. It contains the initial transaction.
GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) – a graphic card, also known as a video card (part of a computer), which is successfully used for mining purposes.
H
HASH FUNCTION – encrypted message with fixes size and unique value.
HASH RATE – a unit to measure the computational power by which a miner contributes in the mining process.
HASH RENTAL – a rented computing power for mining purposes by a cloud mining provider.
HARD FORK – this is a protocol change, which results in splitting into two different chains and the longer one continuous existing. If both of them do – we have a chain split. These changes cannot cooperate with the old rules and require an update.
HARD DISK SPACE – the storage a user needs to locally store the blockchain data on a desktop PC.
Halving – decreasing the reward of gained coins per block using a particular formula.
I
ICO (Initial Coin Offering) – crowdfunding via crypto coins for the purpose of gaining capital for a particular project.
IMMUTABLE – unable to change in time.
K
KYC (Know Your Customer) – an identification process for the users in the network.
L
LEDGER – a piece of record of data, which is immutable.
LIGHT CLIENT – not storing the entire blockchain data but using just parts of it (a block’s header). To have some more information, they trust a full node.
LIGHTNING NETWORK – an additional layer of the blockchain to perform faster transactions between the nodes participating in the network.
LIQUIDITY – the ease to buying and selling, without bothering the market’s price.
M
MARKET CAPITALIZATION – a cryptocurrency’s price, according the total supply.
MARKET SHARE – the hash share of the market with which the pool operates.
MINEABLE – a coin which can be mined in return of reward.
MINER – either the device or the person who’s performing the mining process.
MINER’s FEE – this is the reward a miner receives for its contribution to the network by validating transactions. Normally, miners choose transactions with higher fees to add in the next block to profit more and faster.
MINING – a process of extracting a cryptocurrency by adding and verifying transactions to the blockchain, respectively gaining a reward for it.
MINING POOL – group of miners, combining their power to find a block faster and sharing the reward from it too.
MINING RIG – this is a set of multiple mining hardware, combined to mine with higher hash rate and find a block faster.
N
NODE – a computer that keeps a copy of the blockchain.
NONCE – an arbitrary number in a cryptographic communication. It is generated during the hashing process and can be used only once.
O
ORPHAN BLOCK – a valid block, which isn’t part of the blockchain and occurs when two miners find the same block in the same time. The one which is late becomes orphan.
P
PAYOUT LIMIT – the minimum amount of coins which you can withdraw from your account.
POOL DISTRIBUTION – a percentage of each pool, possessed for this particular coin.
POOL FEES – the fees requested from the pool for maintenance.
POW (Proof-of-Work) – when it comes to mining this is a consensus mechanism where miners are using a nonce to search the block’s solutions and get rewarded proportionally of their contribution (work). There’s no need of trust, since everybody’s “work” (share) is visible in the network.
PPS – (Pay Per Share) a type of rewarding system, based on contribution.
PPLNS – (Pay Per Last N Shares) a type of rewarding system, based on time a contribution.
PRIVATE KEY – this is the “password” which helps you to access your public address. It’s the one and only, which let you read the hashes (messages) sent to your public key.
PROP – (Proportional) a type of rewarding system, based on a proportional relation between contribution and luck.
PUBLIC KEY – this is a recipient’s address to receive any crypto assets in the form of a hash, which might be read with only one specific private key.
Q
QR-CODE – a graphic sign, which can be scanned via smartphone camera to read a wallet’s public address and send some coins within it.
R
REWARDING SYSTEM – a method of rewarding the miners, depending on their contribution to the network.
REPOSITORY – a software where you keep all your information, which might be retrieved at some point.
S
STALE SHARE – when two miners send a share to the network to affirm, they found a block, the one which is late is a stale one.
SPV (Simple Payment Verification) – a client which checks on transactions, using only the headers of the blocks, which is considered a proof of inclusion.
T
TRAFFIC (incoming & outcoming) – the traffic from one point to another (movement of data and actions). It’s important when it’s up to cryptocurrencies because it can define your speed when broadcasting a transaction.
TRANSACTION FEE – a payment to broadcast your transaction on the network.
U
UPTIME – the time during which a mining machine is properly working.
UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) – a value, calculating the balance of unspent coins, based on all the previously spent outputs and inputs, based on the public ledger’s history of transactions.
V
VALID BLOCK – there’s a signal that the block is mined and the user’s waiting for confirmation from other nodes to gain the reward.
VARDIFF (Variable Difficulty) – the share’s difficulty might rise or fall, depending on the hash rate.
VPS (Virtual Private Server) – a PC with static IP, supporting the network.
W
WALLET – a digital wallet to store, send and receive crypto assets.
WORKER – either a mining device, either an account in the mining pool configuration.
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The supply of Bitcoin is fixed at 21 million BTC, and as a hard coded monetary policy of the protocol, the fixed supply of the dominant cryptocurrency cannot be altered.
Former Google Product Director Steve Lee stated that only 1 percent of the world’s population can own more than 0.28 BTC, due to the fixed supply of Bitcoin.
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In late 2017, Chainalysis, a blockchain forensics company that monitors and investigates cryptocurrency transactions, revealed in a research paper that up to four million BTC are permanently lost on the blockchain as a result of theft, loss of wallets and private keys, and the dormant wallet of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, which experts have said is no longer accessible.
Kim Grauer, Senior Economist at Chainalysis, said at the time, that the lost supply of BTC is not taken into consideration by the market cap.That means, the real price of BTC could be substantially higher, as 4 to 6 million BTC are estimated to be lost.
Based on the estimate that the supply of Bitcoin is around 17 million, only 0.8 percent of the world population can own more than 0.28 BTC and less than 0.2 of the world population can own more than 1 BTC.
The 0.28 BTC figure introduced by Lee assumes the supply of Bitcoin to be 21 million, as it divides 21 million by 0.28 and divides the outcome of that by the world population that is 7.442 billion. If the research of Chainalysis is accurate and that 4 to 6 million BTC are lost on the blockchain, the supply of Bitcoin should be closer to around 16 to 17 million
The fact that any investor in the global market can be within the 1 percent of the world population with a $1,830 investment demonstrates that the cryptocurrency market is still at its early phase, and in terms of adoption, market development, infrastructure, and regulation, the sector can still grow significantly in the mid to long-term.
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Calculating your share of the bitcoins mined can be complex. In an ongoing effort to come up with the fairest method and prevent gaming of the system, many calculation schemes have been invented.
PPS
The Pay-per-Share (PPS) approach offers an instant, guaranteed payout for each share that is solved by a miner. Miners are paid out from the pools existing balance and can withdraw their payout immediately. This model allows for the least possible variance in payment for miners while also transferring much of the risk to the pool’s operator.
PPS, or ‘pay per share’ shifts the risk to the mining pool while they guarantee payment for every share you contribute.
PPS payment schemes require a very large reserve of 10,000 BTC in order to ensure they have the means of enduring a streak of bad luck. For this reason, most Bitcoin mining pools no longer support it.
PROP
The Proportional approach offers a proportional distribution of the reward when a block is found amongst all workers, based off of the number of shares they have each found.
PPLNS
The Pay Per Last N Shares (PPLN) approach is similar to the proportional method, but instead of counting the number of shares in the round, it instead looks at the last N shares, no matter the boundaries of the round.
DGM
The Double Geometric Method (DGM) is a hybrid approach that enables the operator to absorb some of the risk. The operator receives a portion of payouts during short rounds and returns it during longer rounds to normalize payments.
DGM is a popular payment scheme because it offers a nice balance between short round and long round blocks. However, end users must wait for full round confirmations long after the blocks are processed.
SMPPS
The Shared Maximum Pay Per Share (SMPPS) uses a similar approach to PPS but never pays more than the Bitcoin mining pool has earned.
ESMPPS
The Equalized Shared Maximum Pay Per Share (ESMPPS) is similar to SMPPS, but distributes payments equally among all miners in the Bitcoin mining pool.
RSMPPS
The Recent Shared Maximum Pay Per Share (RSMPPS) is also similar to SMPPS, but the system prioritizes the most recent Bitcoin miners first.
CPPSRB
The Capped Pay Per Share with Recent Backpay uses a Maximum Pay Per Share (MPPS) reward system that will pay Bitcoin miners as much as possible using the income from finding blocks, but will never go bankrupt.
BPM
Bitcoin Pooled mining (BPM), also known as “Slush’s pool”, uses a system where older shares from the beginning of a block round are given less weight than more recent shares. This reduces the ability to cheat the mining pool system by switching pools during a round.
POT
The Pay on Target (POT) approach is a high variance PPS that pays out in accordance with the difficulty of work returned to the pool by a miner, rather than the difficulty of work done by the pool itself.
SCORE
The SCORE based approach uses a system whereby a proportional reward is distributed and weighed by the time the work was submitted. This process makes later shares worth more than earlier shares and scored by time, thus rewards are calculated in proportion to the scores and not shares submitted.
ELIGIUS
Eligius was designed by Luke Jr., creator of BFGMiner, to incorporate the strengths of PPS and BPM pools, as miners submit proofs-of-work to earn shares and the pool pays out immediately. When the block rewards are distributed, they are divided equally among all shares since the last valid block and the shares contributed to stale blocks are cycled into the next block’s shares. Rewards are only paid out if a miner earns at least. 67108864 and if the amount owed is less than that it will be rolled over to the next block until the limit is achieved. However, if a Bitcoin miner does not submit a share for over a period of a week, then the pool will send any remaining balance, regardless of its size.
Triplemining
Triplemining brings together medium-sized pools with no fees and redistributes 1% of every block found, which allows your share to grow faster than any other Bitcoin mining pool approach. The administrators of these Bitcoin mining pools use some of the Bitcoins generated when a block is found to add to a jackpot that is triggered and paid out to the member of the pool who found the block. In this way, everyone in the pool has a better chance to make additional Bitcoins, regardless of their processing power.
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This is a glossary of all cryptocurrency terms and lingo you might come across when reading about mining and mining pools. Just refer to this page when you see an unfamiliar word or phrase.
A
ADDRESS – a cryptocurrency address is a string, containing numbers and letters, from which you can send and receive crypto payments.
ALGORITHM – kit of rules, which are solving a problem via calculations, using a computer. It’s encrypting and transferring data, which makes it mining’s base when it comes to extracting cryptocurrencies.
ASIC – (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) a dedicated mining device, which is able to extract coins, working with on one particular algorithm.
ASIC-RESISTANCE – memory hard algorithms that are hardly cooperating with ASICs, because they are built to be resistance to this kind of devices.
ATTACK 51% – a miner possess 51% of the pool’s hash rate, so he’s able to manipulate the network.
B
BANDWIDTH – the maximum capacity of the network to transmit data.
BLOCK – a piece of the blockchain, containing transactions.
BLOCKCHAIN – a public ledger, which contains lots of data, encrypted in separate block in the form of hashes (messages). Considered immutable and unable to manipulate.
BLOCK HEADER – a string long 80 bytes, which miners hash with the nonce to find the solution of the block.
BLOCK REWARD – this is what a miner gets for successfully calculating a valid hash in the block when performing a mining process.
BLOCK SIZE – this is a limit of bytes that the block might contain (also limits of transactions in one piece).
BLOCK TIME – the average time needed to find a block’s solutions. It’s different for each coin.
BLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION – the time requested for the blockchain to sync with your device (for full nodes usually).
C
CENTRALIZATION – an organization or system, which is controlled by a central authority.
CLOUD MINING – performing a mining process via rented hashing power from a third-party provider.
COIN – a term used to describe units of blockchain value.
CONFIRMATION – the process of validating if a transaction is including on the blockchain.
CONSENSUS – a rule all participant agrees on when operating on the same network.
CONTRIBUTION SHARE – the hash rate a miner puts into the pool to contribute.
CPU – (Central Processing Unit) a processor, which coordinates the work of all the other part of a computer.
D
DAO (Decentralized Anonymous Organization) – organization running smart contracts.
DIFFICULTY – a measure of how difficult might be to mine a new block.
DIFFICULTY BOMB – malicious attack, increasing difficulty that much, that the reward doesn’t cover the expenses to mine.
DISTRIBUTION – percentage of each pool from all the ones available in the network for this coin.
DOUBLE SPENDING – general issue of the decentralized conception or spending a same amount twice.
DOWNTIME – a period when a machine isn’t working.
E
EXCHANGE – a platform to buy, trade and sell cryptocurrencies.
F
FIAT MONEY – national currency of a central government.
FORK – changing in the rules of the consensus, which might be able to exist with the old established rules (soft fork) or not (hard fork).
FPGA – a modern mining device, improving the ASIC, which can mine coins from one particular algorithm. The interesting here is that you can modify it to mine a different algorithm if you decide to change the coin you mine.
FULL NODE – storing the blockchain data locally on your PC.
G
GAINS – increasing profits (reward).
GENESIS BLOCK – the first block, computationally created in the blockchain. It contains the initial transaction.
GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) – a graphic card, also known as a video card (part of a computer), which is successfully used for mining purposes.
H
HASH FUNCTION – encrypted message with fixes size and unique value.
HASH RATE – a unit to measure the computational power by which a miner contributes in the mining process.
HASH RENTAL – a rented computing power for mining purposes by a cloud mining provider.
HARD FORK – this is a protocol change, which results in splitting into two different chains and the longer one continuous existing. If both of them do – we have a chain split. These changes cannot cooperate with the old rules and require an update.
HARD DISK SPACE – the storage a user needs to locally store the blockchain data on a desktop PC.
Halving – decreasing the reward of gained coins per block using a particular formula.
I
ICO (Initial Coin Offering) – crowdfunding via crypto coins for the purpose of gaining capital for a particular project.
IMMUTABLE – unable to change in time.
K
KYC (Know Your Customer) – an identification process for the users in the network.
L
LEDGER – a piece of record of data, which is immutable.
LIGHT CLIENT – not storing the entire blockchain data but using just parts of it (a block’s header). To have some more information, they trust a full node.
LIGHTNING NETWORK – an additional layer of the blockchain to perform faster transactions between the nodes participating in the network.
LIQUIDITY – the ease to buying and selling, without bothering the market’s price.
M
MARKET CAPITALIZATION – a cryptocurrency’s price, according the total supply.
MARKET SHARE – the hash share of the market with which the pool operates.
MINEABLE – a coin which can be mined in return of reward.
MINER – either the device or the person who’s performing the mining process.
MINER’s FEE – this is the reward a miner receives for its contribution to the network by validating transactions. Normally, miners choose transactions with higher fees to add in the next block to profit more and faster.
MINING – a process of extracting a cryptocurrency by adding and verifying transactions to the blockchain, respectively gaining a reward for it.
MINING POOL – group of miners, combining their power to find a block faster and sharing the reward from it too.
MINING RIG – this is a set of multiple mining hardware, combined to mine with higher hash rate and find a block faster.
N
NODE – a computer that keeps a copy of the blockchain.
NONCE – an arbitrary number in a cryptographic communication. It is generated during the hashing process and can be used only once.
O
ORPHAN BLOCK – a valid block, which isn’t part of the blockchain and occurs when two miners find the same block in the same time. The one which is late becomes orphan.
P
PAYOUT LIMIT – the minimum amount of coins which you can withdraw from your account.
POOL DISTRIBUTION – a percentage of each pool, possessed for this particular coin.
POOL FEES – the fees requested from the pool for maintenance.
POW (Proof-of-Work) – when it comes to mining this is a consensus mechanism where miners are using a nonce to search the block’s solutions and get rewarded proportionally of their contribution (work). There’s no need of trust, since everybody’s “work” (share) is visible in the network.
PPS – (Pay Per Share) a type of rewarding system, based on contribution.
PPLNS – (Pay Per Last N Shares) a type of rewarding system, based on time a contribution.
PRIVATE KEY – this is the “password” which helps you to access your public address. It’s the one and only, which let you read the hashes (messages) sent to your public key.
PROP – (Proportional) a type of rewarding system, based on a proportional relation between contribution and luck.
PUBLIC KEY – this is a recipient’s address to receive any crypto assets in the form of a hash, which might be read with only one specific private key.
Q
QR-CODE – a graphic sign, which can be scanned via smartphone camera to read a wallet’s public address and send some coins within it.
R
REWARDING SYSTEM – a method of rewarding the miners, depending on their contribution to the network.
REPOSITORY – a software where you keep all your information, which might be retrieved at some point.
S
STALE SHARE – when two miners send a share to the network to affirm, they found a block, the one which is late is a stale one.
SPV (Simple Payment Verification) – a client which checks on transactions, using only the headers of the blocks, which is considered a proof of inclusion.
T
TRAFFIC (incoming & outcoming) – the traffic from one point to another (movement of data and actions). It’s important when it’s up to cryptocurrencies because it can define your speed when broadcasting a transaction.
TRANSACTION FEE – a payment to broadcast your transaction on the network.
U
UPTIME – the time during which a mining machine is properly working.
UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) – a value, calculating the balance of unspent coins, based on all the previously spent outputs and inputs, based on the public ledger’s history of transactions.
V
VALID BLOCK – there’s a signal that the block is mined and the user’s waiting for confirmation from other nodes to gain the reward.
VARDIFF (Variable Difficulty) – the share’s difficulty might rise or fall, depending on the hash rate.
VPS (Virtual Private Server) – a PC with static IP, supporting the network.
W
WALLET – a digital wallet to store, send and receive crypto assets.
WORKER – either a mining device, either an account in the mining pool configuration.
This is a glossary of all cryptocurrency terms and lingo you might come across when reading about mining and mining pools. Just refer to this page when you see an unfamiliar word or phrase.
A
ADDRESS – a cryptocurrency address is a string, containing numbers and letters, from which you can send and receive crypto payments.
ALGORITHM – kit of rules, which are solving a problem via calculations, using a computer. It’s encrypting and transferring data, which makes it mining’s base when it comes to extracting cryptocurrencies.
ASIC – (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) a dedicated mining device, which is able to extract coins, working with on one particular algorithm.
ASIC-RESISTANCE – memory hard algorithms that are hardly cooperating with ASICs, because they are built to be resistance to this kind of devices.
ATTACK 51% – a miner possess 51% of the pool’s hash rate, so he’s able to manipulate the network.
B
BANDWIDTH – the maximum capacity of the network to transmit data.
BLOCK – a piece of the blockchain, containing transactions.
BLOCKCHAIN – a public ledger, which contains lots of data, encrypted in separate block in the form of hashes (messages). Considered immutable and unable to manipulate.
BLOCK HEADER – a string long 80 bytes, which miners hash with the nonce to find the solution of the block.
BLOCK REWARD – this is what a miner gets for successfully calculating a valid hash in the block when performing a mining process.
BLOCK SIZE – this is a limit of bytes that the block might contain (also limits of transactions in one piece).
BLOCK TIME – the average time needed to find a block’s solutions. It’s different for each coin.
BLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION – the time requested for the blockchain to sync with your device (for full nodes usually).
C
CENTRALIZATION – an organization or system, which is controlled by a central authority.
CLOUD MINING – performing a mining process via rented hashing power from a third-party provider.
COIN – a term used to describe units of blockchain value.
CONFIRMATION – the process of validating if a transaction is including on the blockchain.
CONSENSUS – a rule all participant agrees on when operating on the same network.
CONTRIBUTION SHARE – the hash rate a miner puts into the pool to contribute.
CPU – (Central Processing Unit) a processor, which coordinates the work of all the other part of a computer.
D
DAO (Decentralized Anonymous Organization) – organization running smart contracts.
DIFFICULTY – a measure of how difficult might be to mine a new block.
DIFFICULTY BOMB – malicious attack, increasing difficulty that much, that the reward doesn’t cover the expenses to mine.
DISTRIBUTION – percentage of each pool from all the ones available in the network for this coin.
DOUBLE SPENDING – general issue of the decentralized conception or spending a same amount twice.
DOWNTIME – a period when a machine isn’t working.
E
EXCHANGE – a platform to buy, trade and sell cryptocurrencies.
F
FIAT MONEY – national currency of a central government.
FORK – changing in the rules of the consensus, which might be able to exist with the old established rules (soft fork) or not (hard fork).
FPGA – a modern mining device, improving the ASIC, which can mine coins from one particular algorithm. The interesting here is that you can modify it to mine a different algorithm if you decide to change the coin you mine.
FULL NODE – storing the blockchain data locally on your PC.
G
GAINS – increasing profits (reward).
GENESIS BLOCK – the first block, computationally created in the blockchain. It contains the initial transaction.
GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) – a graphic card, also known as a video card (part of a computer), which is successfully used for mining purposes.
H
HASH FUNCTION – encrypted message with fixes size and unique value.
HASH RATE – a unit to measure the computational power by which a miner contributes in the mining process.
HASH RENTAL – a rented computing power for mining purposes by a cloud mining provider.
HARD FORK – this is a protocol change, which results in splitting into two different chains and the longer one continuous existing. If both of them do – we have a chain split. These changes cannot cooperate with the old rules and require an update.
HARD DISK SPACE – the storage a user needs to locally store the blockchain data on a desktop PC.
Halving – decreasing the reward of gained coins per block using a particular formula.
I
ICO (Initial Coin Offering) – crowdfunding via crypto coins for the purpose of gaining capital for a particular project.
IMMUTABLE – unable to change in time.
K
KYC (Know Your Customer) – an identification process for the users in the network.
L
LEDGER – a piece of record of data, which is immutable.
LIGHT CLIENT – not storing the entire blockchain data but using just parts of it (a block’s header). To have some more information, they trust a full node.
LIGHTNING NETWORK – an additional layer of the blockchain to perform faster transactions between the nodes participating in the network.
LIQUIDITY – the ease to buying and selling, without bothering the market’s price.
M
MARKET CAPITALIZATION – a cryptocurrency’s price, according the total supply.
MARKET SHARE – the hash share of the market with which the pool operates.
MINEABLE – a coin which can be mined in return of reward.
MINER – either the device or the person who’s performing the mining process.
MINER’s FEE – this is the reward a miner receives for its contribution to the network by validating transactions. Normally, miners choose transactions with higher fees to add in the next block to profit more and faster.
MINING – a process of extracting a cryptocurrency by adding and verifying transactions to the blockchain, respectively gaining a reward for it.
MINING POOL – group of miners, combining their power to find a block faster and sharing the reward from it too.
MINING RIG – this is a set of multiple mining hardware, combined to mine with higher hash rate and find a block faster.
N
NODE – a computer that keeps a copy of the blockchain.
NONCE – an arbitrary number in a cryptographic communication. It is generated during the hashing process and can be used only once.
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ORPHAN BLOCK – a valid block, which isn’t part of the blockchain and occurs when two miners find the same block in the same time. The one which is late becomes orphan.
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PAYOUT LIMIT – the minimum amount of coins which you can withdraw from your account.
POOL DISTRIBUTION – a percentage of each pool, possessed for this particular coin.
POOL FEES – the fees requested from the pool for maintenance.
POW (Proof-of-Work) – when it comes to mining this is a consensus mechanism where miners are using a nonce to search the block’s solutions and get rewarded proportionally of their contribution (work). There’s no need of trust, since everybody’s “work” (share) is visible in the network.
PPS – (Pay Per Share) a type of rewarding system, based on contribution.
PPLNS – (Pay Per Last N Shares) a type of rewarding system, based on time a contribution.
PRIVATE KEY – this is the “password” which helps you to access your public address. It’s the one and only, which let you read the hashes (messages) sent to your public key.
PROP – (Proportional) a type of rewarding system, based on a proportional relation between contribution and luck.
PUBLIC KEY – this is a recipient’s address to receive any crypto assets in the form of a hash, which might be read with only one specific private key.
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QR-CODE – a graphic sign, which can be scanned via smartphone camera to read a wallet’s public address and send some coins within it.
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REWARDING SYSTEM – a method of rewarding the miners, depending on their contribution to the network.
REPOSITORY – a software where you keep all your information, which might be retrieved at some point.
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STALE SHARE – when two miners send a share to the network to affirm, they found a block, the one which is late is a stale one.
SPV (Simple Payment Verification) – a client which checks on transactions, using only the headers of the blocks, which is considered a proof of inclusion.
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TRAFFIC (incoming & outcoming) – the traffic from one point to another (movement of data and actions). It’s important when it’s up to cryptocurrencies because it can define your speed when broadcasting a transaction.
TRANSACTION FEE – a payment to broadcast your transaction on the network.
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UPTIME – the time during which a mining machine is properly working.
UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) – a value, calculating the balance of unspent coins, based on all the previously spent outputs and inputs, based on the public ledger’s history of transactions.
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VALID BLOCK – there’s a signal that the block is mined and the user’s waiting for confirmation from other nodes to gain the reward.
VARDIFF (Variable Difficulty) – the share’s difficulty might rise or fall, depending on the hash rate.
VPS (Virtual Private Server) – a PC with static IP, supporting the network.
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WALLET – a digital wallet to store, send and receive crypto assets.
WORKER – either a mining device, either an account in the mining pool configuration.
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