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Proof of stake (PoS)
PoS is a consensus mechanism alternative to PoW that requires locking tokens as collateral.
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Progressive web app
Progressive web apps achieve the pros of both native and web apps.
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Private sale
A private sale is an investment round ahead of an ICO for institutional and big investors.
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Private key
The private key is the combination of characters that is generated by cryptography and acts as a digital signature of its owner.
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Price action
Price action a chart of an asset’s prices over time.
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Ponzi scheme
Ponzi schemes are scams where the fraud usually pays off old investors with money he receives from newer investors.
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Plasma
Plasma is a scaling solution that increases transaction speed and decrease costs by taking off the load from the main chain.
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Phishing
A phishing attack is a cyberattack by a malicious actor who attempts to extract sensitive information from users by pretending to be a familiar actor.
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Pegged currency
Pegging a currency means linking its value to the value of another asset at a fixed exchange rate.
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Peer-to-peer (p2p)
Peer to peer is a decentralized system that allows actors to directly interact with each other without the need for an intermediary.
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Passive management
Passive management investing is based on the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) and attempts to reproduce a market index.
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Paper wallet
A paper wallet is a piece of paper on which the private and public keys to the digital assets are printed or written down.
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