The most comprehensive crypto glossary for Intermediate level
The most comprehensive crypto glossary out there.
Swing trading
A trading style that attempts to generate short or medium-term profit on an asset over a period of several days to several weeks. Swing traders mainly use technical analysis to find trading opportunities.
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Level: Intermediate
Swing failure pattern (SFP)
A trend reversal indicator that can be used to discover a weakness in the current trend and identify early reversal signs.
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Level: Intermediate
Swap (derivative swap)
A derivative contract in which one party exchanges or “swaps” the cash flows or value of one asset for another. Most swaps involve cash operations such as a loan or bond.
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Level: Intermediate
Supply сhain
A network of people and businesses involved in creating and distributing a particular product or serving a particular customer. Blockchain technologies offer solutions for efficient management of supply chains, like automated and transparent tracking.
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Level: Intermediate
Sunk cost
Money that has already been spent and cannot be returned. For example, in a manufacturing firm is the cost of machinery, equipment, and the cost of renting a factory. In business and investment, a sunk cost fallacy is an error of a decision-maker considering that further investments into a certain activity are justified so those earlier investments in that activity will not have been in vain.
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Level: Intermediate
Store of value
A property of an asset that can avoid depreciation over an extended period of time. Thus, to be considered a store of value, the value of an asset must either be stable or increase over time but never decline.
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Level: Intermediate
Stochastic oscillator
A technical indicator for generating overbought and oversold signals. It compares the specific closing price of an asset to its price range over a specific period of time.
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Level: Intermediate
Stealth addresses
A technique for obscuring public blockchain transactions by generating one-time addresses. Stealth addresses operate by creating a one-time address for every transaction, even if the same recipient receives multiple transactions.
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Level: Intermediate
State channel
A process in which users transact with each other directly outside of the blockchain, or ‘off-chain’. It greatly minimizes their use of ‘on-chain’ operations. It’s one of the Ethereum scaling solutions in development.
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Level: Intermediate
Stale block
Blocks that have been successfully mined but are not included in the current chain. Typically, a stale block occurs when another block of the same height is first added to the chain.
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Level: Intermediate
Staking pool
A group of token holders is merging their resources to increase their chances of block validation and staking rewards. As a rule, a bet must be locked for a certain period and usually has a de-linking or unlinking time set by the protocol.
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Level: Intermediate
Stacking sats
The process of regularly accumulating small amounts of bitcoins over time by buying, receiving, or mining BTC. "Sats" refers to Satoshi, the smallest unit of Bitcoin.
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Level: Intermediate
SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate
A technological standard used to enable a secure connection between a website and a user on the internet. SSL certificates scramble transmitted data through encryption algorithms in order to prevent malicious actors from being able to access data as it moves from one system to another.
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Level: Intermediate
SPV (simplified payment verification)
A blockchain payments technique described in Satoshi Nakamoto’s paper. SPV allows a lightweight client to verify a transaction without downloading the entire blockchain.
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Level: Intermediate
Spot trading
A process of buying and selling assets without using leverage. It’s different from trading financial derivatives such as futures or options. Spot trading is considered to be much less risky than derivatives trading as it does not involve leverage and potential liquidation of assets.
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Level: Intermediate