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  2. Explainer: What common cryptocurrency terms mean - AOL

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    Wallet A cryptocurrency wallet is a device used to store and manage crypto holdings. It safeguards private keys, which are essential for accessing and controlling your coins.

  3. Stellar (payment network) - Wikipedia

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    Stellar, or Stellar Lumens (XLM) is an open-source, decentralized cryptocurrency protocol for digital currency to fiat money low-cost transfers which allows cross-border transactions between any pair of currencies. [2]

  4. Cryptocurrency wallet - Wikipedia

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    A deterministic wallet seed phrase of a crypto wallet. A sequential deterministic wallet utilizes a simple method of generating addresses from a known starting string or "seed". This would utilize a cryptographic hash function, e.g. SHA-256 (seed + n), where n is an ASCII-coded number that starts from 1 and increments as additional keys are ...

  5. Market order vs. limit order: How they differ and which type ...

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    A limit order will not shift the market the way a market order might. The downsides to limit orders can be relatively modest: You may have to wait and wait for your price.

  6. Central limit order book - Wikipedia

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    A central limit order book (CLOB) [1] is a trading method used by most exchanges globally using the order book and a matching engine to execute limit orders.It is a transparent system that matches customer orders (e.g. bids and offers) on a 'price time priority' basis.

  7. Lightning Network - Wikipedia

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    Time-based script extensions like CheckSequenceVerify and CheckLockTimeVerify make the penalties possible. Transacting parties use the Lightning Network by opening a payment channel and transferring (committing) funds to the relevant layer-1 blockchain (e.g. bitcoin) under a smart contract. The parties then make any number of off-chain ...

  8. List of cryptocurrencies - Wikipedia

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    The first and most widely used decentralized ledger currency, [8] with the highest market capitalization as of 2018. [9] 2011 Litecoin: LTC, Ł Charlie Lee: Scrypt: C++ [10] PoW: One of the first cryptocurrencies to use scrypt as a hashing algorithm. 2011 Namecoin: NMC Vincent Durham [11] [12] SHA-256d: C++ [13] PoW: Also acts as an alternative ...

  9. Bitcoin protocol - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of a bitcoin transfer. The bitcoin protocol is the set of rules that govern the functioning of bitcoin.Its key components and principles are: a peer-to-peer decentralized network with no central oversight; the blockchain technology, a public ledger that records all bitcoin transactions; mining and proof of work, the process to create new bitcoins and verify transactions; and ...