Crypto basics

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?

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

What is Taproot?

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?

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?

To mine Bitcoin, computers solve cryptographic puzzles to process and validate blocks and their transactions. 1 minute read

What does mining difficulty mean?

The Bitcoin price is determined by the age-old economic principle of supply and demand. 1 minute read

What determines the price of Bitcoin?

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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?

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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 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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Like many of the famous rivalries of the past, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin share many similarities albeit with one fundamental difference: Bitcoin Cash is a proof of work blockchain that is faster and cheaper to use than Bitcoin. 1 minute read

What is Bitcoin Cash?

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?

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?

Ethereum is a decentralised, global computer that runs on blockchain technology. 1 minute read

What is Ethereum?

Ethereum was built as more than just another digital payments facilitator. 1 minute read

Why does Ethereum have value?

Ethereum

What is a smart contract?

Smart contracts are independent programs that run on a blockchain like Ethereum and ensure an agreed outcome can be achieved between multiple parties. 1 minute read

Ethereum

What is Ethereum Classic?

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

Ethereum

What is gas and how does it work?

Gas is the fuel that allows the Ethereum network to operate. 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?

Introduction to cryptocurrency

Get answers to all the big cryptocurrency questions. Where did they come from? How do they work?

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A ‘digital’ asset is simply anything you own that has economic value and only exists digitally. March 15, 2022 · 5 minute read

What’s a digital asset and why are people investing in them?

Fiat currency is money issued by a central bank, cryptocurrency is digital money governed by blockchain, computer code, the crypto community. 1 minute read

What is the difference between fiat currency and cryptocurrency?

A fork in cryptocurrency occurs when software updates need to be implemented. 1 minute read

What is a hard fork?

Specialised computer used for bitcoin mining

Blockchains are designed to operate without the need of a middleman, with each recorded transaction requiring every node operating on the network to verify and confirm that it’s correct. 2 minute read

What is Proof of History?

The proof of activity consensus protocol combines the best features of both proof of work (PoW) and proof of stake (PoS) in order to increase the security of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. 1 minute read

What is proof of activity?

A fork is a collectively agreed upon software update to a cryptocurrency built on blockchain. 1 minute read

What is a fork in cryptocurrency?

Bitcoin basics

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

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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?

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?

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?

A blockchain is a kind of digital ‘spreadsheet’ that keeps track of any data loaded and locked into it. 1 minute read

What is a blockchain?

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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