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Double Spending
Double spending occurs when a digital currency is replicated and spent twice.
Diversification
Diversification is a risk hedging technique employed by investing in various independent projects and assets within a portfolio.
Divergence
Divergence is when an asset’s price is increasing or decreasing in a way contrary to the change in direction of some technical indicator or relevant data.
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
DLT is a means of storing transaction data in several nodes simultaneously rather than in a single place.
Difficulty
Difficulty is how complex it is to solve a cryptographic problem.
Delisting
Delisting is the withdrawal of an asset from the exchange listing.
Deep Web
Deep web refers to parts of the internet not available through a standard search engine like Google or Bing.
Decryption
Decryption is the decoding of cryptographic data into a mode that can be read by individuals or machines.
DeX
DEX is short for decentralized exchange and refers to exchanges performed without an intermediary.
DAO
A decentralized autonomous organization is a democratized community-based organization governed by smart contracts.
DAC
DAC stands for decentralized autonomous corporation and is sometimes used synonomously with DAO.
DApp
Decentralized applications are applications that run on a network of peer-to-peer computers.
DeFi
“DeFi” is an umbrella term for all financial projects and protocols in various blockchains, that are compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine.