Important Blockchain & Crypto terms & jargon 

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Solidity

The programming language used by Ethereum for developing smart contracts.

Source Code

A collection of lines or computer-executable commands written in a high-level language is called a source code.

Spear Phishing

Is a personalized, targeted cyber attack that uses your interest to trick you into clicking a malicious link in an email.

Speculative Investment

Is an investment where the investor expects a high return with a significant risk of loss.

Spoon ( Blockchain)

A hard spoon is a meta-protocol that exists on top of a blockchain.

Spot Trading

Involves the immediate exchange of a financial instrument at the current price.

Spyware

Is a malware that records all of the activities on an electronic device.

Stablecoins

A cryptocurrency with extremely low volatility, sometimes used as a means of portfolio diversification. Examples include gold-backed cryptocurrency or fiat-pegged cryptocurrency.

Stacking Sats

Refers to the practice of accumulating small amounts of Bitcoin, typically expressed in "satoshis," the smallest unit of a Bitcoin.

Staking

Is a form of participation in a proof-of-stake (PoS) system to put your tokens in to serve as a validator to the blockchain and receive rewards.

Staking Pools

Allows users to combine their resources in order to increase their chances of earning rewards. This mechanism offers more staking power to the network to verify and validate.

Stale Block 

A block which was successfully mined but not included on the current longest blockchain, usually because another block at the same height was added to the chain first.

Stop-Loss Order

In trading allows investors to determine the lowest price at which they are willing to sell an asset and trigger an automatic sell order when and if this price is reached.

Storage ( Decentralized )

Refers to the concept of storing files online by splitting them into encrypted fragments and delegating these fragments to multiple nodes on a distributed network.

Stroop

A stroop is the smallest unit of Lumen (XLM).

01 stroop is equivalent to 0.000001 XLM

Supply and Demand

Are the levels in an economy that determine the market's willingness to buy or sell assets or services, respectively.

Supply Chain Attack

Is a tactic used by hackers to compromise third-party suppliers to major corporations, governments and organizations to gain valuable information.

Support Level

In crypto is when the price of a crypto asset stops depreciating because of increased supply from buyers that wish to buy at a certain price.

Surge ( Ethereum  )

Is a development stage of the Ethereum network. It includes a set of upgrades, most notably sharding.

SFP - Swing Failure Pattern

Is a trend reversal indicator that can be used to discover a weakness in the current trend and identify early reversal signs.

Swing Trading

Is a market trading technique that aims to profit from short to medium-term price changes in stocks, commodities, and/or currencies over a period of days or weeks.

Sybil Attack

Sybil attacks undermine an online network by creating many IDs, accounts or nodes to upset the balance of power.

Symbol

The ticker of a cryptocurrency; for example, Bitcoin's symbol is BTC.

Symmetric Key Cryptography

Is a type of cryptography that uses a single key to both encrypt and decrypt data.

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