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Getting Started with Cryptocurrency
book

Getting Started with Cryptocurrency

by Kate R Baucherel, Grant Wright
April 2024
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
130 pages
2h 46m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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Glossary

51% attack: A malicious actor taking control of a majority of blockchain validators.

Airdrop: Unsolicited receipt of a token which may be expected, benign or malicious.

Altcoin: A cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin.

Anti-money laundering (AML): Global regulatory requirement for financial services.

Bear market: A period of falling asset values and low confidence.

Biometrics: Security features using ‘what you are’ – fingerprint, voiceprint, face.

Bitcoin: The first cryptocurrency and its blockchain.

Block explorer: A public browser representation of blockchain activity.

Block hash: The cryptographic signature of the entire contents of a block in the chain.

Block height: The position of a block in the chain; its height above the genesis ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781780176475