Cryptography
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
A discipline or field of study which practices using cryptography to convert human-readable information that can only be deciphered by individuals who have the knowledge to.
Related Terms
Circulating Supply
An approximation of the number of coins or tokens that are currently not locked and available for public transactions.
Halving
Event that serves to reduce in half the reward of the Proof-of-Work miners that operate in the blockchain network.
Application Programming Interface (API)
It is a software that acts like an intermediary or a bridge that lets two applications talk to each other. It is the one that lets applications, data and devices interact.
Whitelist
List of approved participants that will be given access to a token sale (ICO, IEO, STO etc...)
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