Crypto basics

A positive return on investment (ROI) is the holy grail of investing. 1 minute read

What is a return on investment?

An asset is any item, either physical (tangible) or non-physical (intangible) that holds value and can be of benefit to the owner in the future. 1 minute read

What is an asset?

A trading strategy is an approach for longing or shorting financial markets with the aim to earn a profit as consistently as possible. 1 minute read

Trading strategies

Profit is essentially what’s left over in revenue once expenses, costs and taxes involved have been deducted. 1 minute read

What is profit?

Options allow traders to reserve now and pay later for assets in exchange for a fee. 2 minute read

What is an option?

Overexposure is when a trader has invested too much into one asset. 1 minute read

What is overexposure?

Bitcoin for Pros

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Taproot makes it possible to process transactions in batches. 1 minute read

What is Taproot?

A Schnorr signature is a type of digital signature used to verify and authorise transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. 1 minute read

What is a Schnorr signature?

Cryptocurrency investors argue that Bitcoin is the digital equivalent of investing in gold, in the sense that it is a hedge against inflation and turbulence in the financial markets. 2 minute read

How does Bitcoin differ from gold?

As the name suggests, the Lightning Network is a second-layer blockchain that sits on top of Bitcoin and helps make the transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain faster by processing multiple transactions at once. 1 minute read

What is the lightning network?

Segregated Witness (SegWit) refers to a process to reduce the requirements for processing Bitcoin transactions by allowing information to be processed more efficiently to speed up the network. 1 minute read

What is SegWit?

The process of mining gold can be understood as it is a mineral found deep underground that can only be reached and salvaged using mining equipment. 2 minute read

Why is mining necessary?

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Day trading is when traders place trades on financial markets using technical indicators that try to predict where the price of an asset will head over the course of a day. 1 minute read

What is day trading?

High-frequency trading (HFT) refers to a specialised form of trading that uses computer programs called bots to execute multiple trades in fractions of a second. 1 minute read

What is high frequency trading?

Spread is the difference in price between an ask and a bid. 1 minute read

What is spread?

An index is an aggregated security that tracks the performance of a collection of companies or assets. 1 minute read

What is an index?

A bear market is the part of a market cycle when prices are trending downwards, generally due to fear that prices will continue to fall. 1 minute read

What is a bear market?

Hedging is a way to reduce the risk of holding an asset. 1 minute read

What does hedging mean?

Bitcoin basics

Your go-to place for information, tips, news and features on the cryptocurrency that started it all.

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Let's look at the previous attempts to create digital currencies that made Bitcoin possible. 2 minute read

What came before Bitcoin?

Each Bitcoin is created through a process called mining and the people that mine cryptocurrencies are called miners. 2 minute read

How is Bitcoin created?

While your local currency – whether it’s dollars, pounds or something else – are issued by central banks, new Bitcoins are issued to Bitcoin miners in return for certain tasks they carry out to keep it running. 1 minute read

What is Bitcoin mining?

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and the Bitcoin blockchain is the ledger, or the spreadsheet, on which all the transactions that have ever been made with Bitcoin are recorded. 1 minute read

What is the difference between Bitcoin and a blockchain?

There are currently around 18. 1 minute read

How many Bitcoin are there and why?

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How do macroeconomic events impact Bitcoin?

Bitcoin’s price is linked directly to supply and demand, and events that impact the economy on a national and global level impact people’s need to buy or own (hodl) the cryptocurrency. 1 minute read

How to invest in cryptocurrency

Investing in cryptocurrency can look confusing at first, but there are number of simple and easy ways to approach it

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A brief overview of some of the most common cryptocurrency trading and investment strategies. 4 minute read

A beginner’s guide to crypto trading strategies

Three potted plants ranging from small to large sizes to indicate growth of wealth when using staking pools

Stakers combine their assets in a stake pool to increase their chances of reward and meet required minimum amount to stake. 1 minute read

What is a stake pool?

Stablecoins are digital currencies that are minted on the blockchain, each with their own collateral structure. 2 minute read

What are the different types of stablecoin collateral?

Market cap is the total number of outstanding shares in a company or asset and the current price per share. 1 minute read

What is market capitalisation?

There are a number of ways you can get Bitcoin: Just like traditional money, you can earn it by providing goods or services, and asking for people to pay you in Bitcoin rather than in traditional money. 1 minute read

How do I get Bitcoin?

A brief overview of the charts used by cryptocurrency traders in their market analysis and how they work. 6 minute read

A beginner’s guide to cryptocurrency charts

Ethereum for Pros

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The Ethereum Merge today and tomorrow

On 15 September, the Ethereum Merge finally happened without a glitch. September 22, 2022 · 4 minute read

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“Stateless Ethereum” may help to achieve true decentralisation

“Stateless Ethereum” proposed to mitigate the reliance on centralised providers and systems. March 10, 2022 · 2 minute read

Stakers combine their assets in a stake pool to increase their chances of reward and meet required minimum amount to stake. 1 minute read

What is a stake pool?

Proof-of-stake is a type of consensus protocol that relies on a network of ‘validators’ with similar responsibilities to miners. 1 minute read

What is proof of stake?

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What is the Ethereum WebAssembly?

Ethereum WebAssembly (ewasm) is a part of a series of upgrades to the original Ethereum network under the banner of the consensus layer. 1 minute read

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What is a decentralised oracle network (DON)?

A decentralised oracle network (DON) is a group of independent third-party services that actively seeks out real-world data such as weather updates or financial information and feeds it back to the blockchain, providing a bridge between the decentralised and centralised worlds. 1 minute read

Where does money come from?

It’s a central part of our daily lives, but how much do you really know about the coins jangling in your pocket and how they work?

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When Bitcoin is written and talked about, previous attempts to create digital currencies that made Bitcoin possible are often overlooked. 1 minute read

Where did digital money come from?

You probably hear the word Bitcoin and cryptocurrency interchanged regularly from a number of sources across the news and media. 2 minute read

What is cryptocurrency?

Scarcity is a term in economics that refers to something that is finite or limited. 1 minute read

What is scarcity?

Money continues to hold value as everyone knows that it will be accepted as a form of payment. 3 minute read

Why did monetary systems of the past fail?

In the same way we use Fahrenheit or Celsius to measure temperature, anything of value from the price of your house to the total value of the economy is measured using a unit of account. 1 minute read

What is a unit of account?

One of the key functions of money, a medium of exchange, simplifies the process of trading by allowing value to be transferred or exchanged between a buyer and seller because it is widely accepted as an appropriate payment. 1 minute read

What is a medium of exchange?

Ethereum basics

Ethereum introduced the world to smart contracts and decentralised finance. Here’s what you need to know.

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Ethereum was first outlined by its creator Vitalik Buterin in an official whitepaper that arrived in 2013. 1 minute read

Who invented Ethereum?

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What is Ethereum Classic?

Ethereum Classic is the original version of the Ethereum blockchain with ETC as its native token. 1 minute read

Ethereum and Bitcoin are both cryptocurrencies but they are fundamentally different in their use cases. 1 minute read

What is the difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum?

Bitcoin Cash basics

Bitcoin Cash was built to solve what some people saw as problems with Bitcoin, but what were they and has it worked?

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Bitcoin Cash came from a desire to improve Bitcoin as a medium of exchange, rather than an investment medium. 1 minute read

Where did Bitcoin Cash come from?

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