The most comprehensive crypto glossary for Beginner level
The most comprehensive crypto glossary out there.
Treasury bond (T-Bond)
Debt securities issued by the U.S. federal government with a maturity of more than 20 years. Treasury bonds earn periodic interest until maturity, after which the holder is also paid a face amount equal to the principal.
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Trend
A trend refers to the overall direction of a financial market or an asset’s price. In technical analysis, trends are identified by trend lines or price action that highlight when the price is making higher swing highs and higher swing lows for an uptrend, or lower swing lows and lower swing highs for a downtrend.
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Trend analysis
A methodology in technical analysis (TA) used to predict future price movements by observing overall trend data. Trend analysis helps traders and investors make better decisions based on the overall market sentiment.
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Trend line
A line that is drawn on a price chart to signify trends in price action for a specific timeframe. Trend lines are commonly used to determine the upward, sideways, or downward momentum of a price trend.
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Trojan
Any type of malware that hides its true intentions in order to gain unauthorized access to a targeted device or network. In most cases, Trojans look like harmless programs or discretely attach themselves to other software.
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TypeScript
A programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. It is a strict syntactic superset of JavaScript that adds optional static typing to the language.
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Terminal value
Determines the value of a business or project beyond the forecast period when future cash flows can be estimated. This allows financial models to value a business with a greater degree of accuracy.
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Tendermint Core Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)
A language-independent consensus method developed by the Tendermint team. It aims to be a more scalable, secure, and decentralized version of the Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (pBFT), State Machine Replication (SMR), and Depth Limit Search (DLS) algorithms. Tendermint Core supports state machines written in any programming language and provides a high degree of completeness.
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Tendermint
A company-creator of the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Tendermint Core Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism that was initially built for the Cosmos Hub blockchain protocol. Tendermint functions as the gateway to the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem.
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Technical indicator
A specific mathematical mostly pattern-based signal formed on the historical price chart of a cryptocurrency. Technical indicators are commonly used by traders to predict future price movements and constitute a fundamental component of technical analysis (TA).
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Technical analysis (TA)
A method of assessing the performance of an asset by analyzing certain patterns on charts, such as price and trading volume. Technical analysts try to extrapolate future price movements based on various historical data.
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Tank
A slang describing the strong negative performance of a particular asset. Thus, an asset is considered “tanking” when its price falls very quickly. An asset or portfolio is considered "in the tank" if its financial results significantly decrease in value over a long period of time.
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Tangible asset
Assets with a real transactional value and usually has a physical form. They include cash, inventory, vehicles, equipment, buildings and investments.
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Tangle (IOTA)
An innovative type of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) specifically designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) environment.
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Tamper-proof ledger
A list of transactions that may consist of payments or transfers of an asset. Blockchain is a ledger that is fundamentally tamper-proof. Once a transaction is confirmed and entered into the ledger, the entry cannot be changed without detection.
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