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2. Explainer: What common cryptocurrency terms mean - AOL

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   Cryptocurrency can be an exciting opportunity for investors, and trading digital currency is increasingly mainstream. But cryptocurrency can feel complex and overwhelming if you’re not familiar ...

3. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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   A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or colloquially, crypto, is a digital currency designed to work through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it.

4. Cryptocurrency: What it is and how it works - AOL

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   Cryptocurrency is a kind of digital currency that is intended to act as a medium of exchange. Cryptocurrency has become popular in the last decade, in particular, with Bitcoin becoming the most ...

5. Stablecoin - Wikipedia

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   Their value is pegged to one or more currencies (most commonly the US dollar, the euro, and the Swiss franc) in a fixed ratio; The value connection is realized off-chain through banks or other types of regulated financial institutions which serve as depositaries of the currency used to back the stablecoin;

6. 12 most popular types of cryptocurrency - AOL

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   The currency’s founders say that it’s backed by fully reserved assets or those with “equivalent fair value” and those assets are held in accounts with regulated U.S. institutions. 9 ...

7. Economics of bitcoin - Wikipedia

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   Bitcoin was designed by its pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, to work as a currency, but its status as a currency is disputed. [1] Economists define money as a store of value , a medium of exchange and a unit of account , and agree that bitcoin does not currently meet all these criteria.

8. World’s 6 largest stablecoins: Top cryptocurrencies that ...

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   Meanwhile, crypto-backed stablecoins, such as Dai, maintain their dollar peg by using overcollateralized cryptocurrencies locked in smart contracts, making them vulnerable to the volatility of the ...

9. Store of value - Wikipedia

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   In addition, currency can take many alternative forms, such as cryptocurrency, livestock (e.g. some pre-colonial African currencies), [11] labor vouchers, gift economy relationships or stored-value cards (value is recorded directly on computer chips of the cards). [20]