Important Blockchain & Crypto terms & jargon
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DSA - Digital Signature Alogorithm
is a signature algorithm, not an encryption algorithm, and uses public-key cryptography to generate digital signatures.
Dip
Is when markets experience a short or protracted downturn.
Discord
is a web-based communication tool or application primarily built to enable communication between gamers. now widely use crypto community chats as well.
Distributed Consensus
Collective agreement reached among nodes in a network.
DDoS - Distributed denial of Service Attack.
An attempt by a bad actor to disrupt the operation of an application, server or network by flooding it with traffic
Distributed Ledger
Are ledgers in which data is stored across a network of decentralized nodes.
Distributed Network
A network in which the data and applications are dependent on multiple sources, as opposed to one location.
Diversification
Is a risk-management strategy that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio.
Dolphin
Someone with a moderate holding of cryptocurrency.
Dominance
A measure of Bitcoin's value in the context of the larger cryptocurrency market.
Dorian Nakamoto
is a Japanese-American physicist who some believe to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
DotSama
DotSama is a new piece of crypto slang, used to describe the Kusama and Polkadot ecosystems in just one word.
DRC - 20
is a token standard on the Dogecoin network that allows developers and users to create fungible assets within Dogecoin's ecosystem. It is similar to ERC-20 on Ethereum.
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