Słownik
Słownik kryptowalut
Ponad pięćdziesiąt pojęć z kryptowalut, rynków i europejskich regulacji, wyjaśnionych w jednym zdaniu wraz z potrzebnym kontekstem.
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AFM
The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, the MiCA licensing authority for crypto service providers in the Netherlands.
PrzepisyAML
Anti-money laundering: the body of rules meant to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.
TechnologiaAMM
Automated Market Maker: a contract that prices trades with a formula based on the ratio in a liquidity pool.
B
Blockchain
A shared ledger in which transactions are recorded in consecutive blocks and maintained by many computers at once.
PodatkiBox 3
The Dutch tax on wealth, including crypto holdings, based on the value at the reference date.
TechnologiaBridge
A service that moves tokens from one network to another, usually by locking them and reissuing them elsewhere.
C
Capital gains tax
Tax on the gain between the purchase and sale price of an asset.
PrzepisyCASP
Crypto-Asset Service Provider: a MiCA-licensed provider of services such as trading, custody or exchange.
RynekCEX
A centralised exchange that holds client funds and matches orders in its own order book.
BezpieczeństwoCold storage
Storing keys on a device that is not connected to the internet.
TechnologiaConsensus
The rules by which all participants in a network agree on which transactions are valid.
PrzepisyCustody
Holding crypto-assets on behalf of a client by a service provider.
D
DAC8
The European directive requiring crypto service providers to report client data and transactions to tax authorities.
PodstawyDCA
Dollar cost averaging: investing a fixed amount at regular intervals regardless of price.
RynekDepeg
The moment a stablecoin structurally deviates from its intended value.
TechnologiaDEX
A decentralised exchange where you swap directly from your own wallet, without an intermediary holding your coins.
PrzepisyDigital euro
A digital form of cash for everyday payments, issued by the European Central Bank.
RynekDrawdown
The distance between a portfolio's peak and its subsequent trough.
E
F
FDV
Fully diluted valuation: the valuation if all future tokens were already circulating.
TechnologiaFork
A split of a network because participants follow different rules.
PrzepisyFSMA
Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority, supervising crypto service providers and advertising among other things.
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M
Market capitalisation
The price multiplied by the number of coins in circulation.
PrzepisyMiCA
The European Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, setting licences and rules for issuers and service providers of crypto-assets.
TechnologiaMining
The process where computers bundle transactions into blocks and are rewarded with new coins and transaction fees.
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Peg
The link between a token and a reference value, such as one dollar.
BezpieczeństwoPhishing
Fraud in which someone impersonates a trusted party to obtain your login details or keys.
RynekPower law
A model describing the bitcoin price as a straight line on a log-log scale against time.
BezpieczeństwoProof of reserves
A check in which a platform demonstrates it holds at least as many assets as it owes clients.
TechnologiaProof of stake
A consensus mechanism in which validators back the correctness of blocks with staked coins.
TechnologiaProof of work
A consensus mechanism in which miners spend computing power for the right to add blocks.
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S
Seed phrase
A series of twelve or twenty-four words from which all keys of a wallet can be regenerated.
TechnologiaSlashing
Losing part of your staked coins as a penalty for validator faults or misbehaviour.
RynekSlippage
The difference between the expected and the actually executed price of an order.
RynekSpread
The gap between the highest bid and the lowest ask in the order book.
PodstawyStablecoin
A token that targets a fixed value, usually one euro or one dollar, backed by reserves.
PodstawyStaking
Locking coins to help secure a network in return for a reward.
RynekStock-to-flow
A model dividing the existing stock of a good by annual new production as a measure of scarcity.