The most comprehensive crypto glossary for Beginner level

The most comprehensive crypto glossary out there.

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Fiscal Policy

Describes how a country's tax rates and spending levels are adjusted. By defining how public funds are collected and used, they are in a position to monitor and ultimately influence the economy of a nation.

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Finality

An assurance or guarantee that cryptocurrency transactions cannot be altered, reversed, canceled, or reversed after they have been performed. A blockchain's latency will have a significant impact on its finality rate.

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Fiat-Pegged Cryptocurrency

An asset, token, or coin that is registered on a blockchain and linked to a government or bank-issued currency.

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Fiat on-ramp

Exchanges or other types of services that allow you to convert fiat money into cryptocurrency. You can convert fiat money into cryptocurrencies using an on-ramp.

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Fiat

Valid form of money that is typically supported by a government regulation declaring it legal tender. Fiat is derived from the Latin and refers to a government order, decree, or resolution.

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Fee tiers

The fees that crypto exchanges charge investors when they deposit or withdraw their money and execute trades.

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Faucet

System for rewarding users with cryptocurrency when they accomplish certain tasks via a website or app.

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Fan token

Sport-specific cryptocurrency that allows its holders to participate in the governing activities and receive exclusive rewards and discounts.

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Falling knife

Buying assets that are rapidly declining in value. Such a prediction is usually based on the idea that the price will bottom out just before a Dead Cat Bounce or price reversal occurs.

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FA (Fundamental Analysis)

The process by which investors and traders determine the intrinsic value of a business or asset primarily by evaluating qualitative and quantitative factors, including company management, reputation, industry health, market capitalization, and other economic factors. It determines whether or not the price of an asset is overvalued or undervalued using fundamental analysis.

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SWIFT

Stands for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. It's a global network connecting banks to communicate messages about activities like money transfer safely and securely.

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Support level

A price level that an asset does not fall below for a certain period of time. An asset's support level is created by buyers entering the market whenever the asset drops to a lower price. In technical analysis, a simple support level can be plotted on the chart by drawing a line along with the lowest lows in the time frame in question.

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Supply and demand

In economics, it is the relationship between the amount of a good that producers want to sell at different prices and the amount that consumers are willing to buy. This is the main pricing model used in economic theory.

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Supercomputer

The computer or virtual machine with the highest performance available at any given time. Initially, such computers were used primarily for scientific and engineering work requiring extremely high-speed computing.

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Strike price

The strike price is the value at which a derivative contract can be bought or sold. The strike price is a key variable in call and put options. For example, the buyer of a call option will have the right, but not the obligation, to buy the underlying asset in the future at the specified strike price.

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