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  • Bitcoin & blockchain
  • Wallets & staying safe

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Ebook cover: An Introduction to Cryptocurrency

Inside the ebook

What you’ll learn

  • How crypto works

    What cryptocurrency is, how Bitcoin began and the blockchain behind it.

  • Coins, tokens, stablecoins

    What’s beyond Bitcoin and how the main types differ.

  • Wallets and staying safe

    Wallets, private keys, careful buying and how to spot scams.

  • Prices and myths

    How markets move, common myths and the open questions ahead.

Key terms

Crypto vocabulary you’ll learn

  • Blockchain
    A shared record of transactions, copied across many computers, that’s extremely hard to change.
  • Wallet
    An app or device that holds the keys controlling your crypto, so you can send and receive it.
  • Private key
    A secret number that proves you own your crypto. Whoever has it controls the funds.
  • Seed phrase
    12 or 24 words that can restore a wallet. Write it down offline and never share it.
  • Exchange
    A platform where you buy, sell or swap crypto, run by a company or by smart contracts.
  • Stablecoin
    A token built to hold a steady value, usually one US dollar.
  • Proof of work
    How Bitcoin agrees on new blocks: miners compete with computing power to add the next one.
  • Bitcoin halving
    A cut about every four years that halves the new bitcoin miners earn per block.
  • See all 106 terms in the Crypto Dictionary

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