Week 30 - Crypto
Across
- 3. A currency established as money, often by government regulation. Does not have intrinsic value and does not have use value. It has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value
- 4. A certificate issued by a government or private company which promises to pay back with interest the money borrowed from the buyer of the certificate: The city issued bonds to raise money for putting in new sewers.
- 5. Malicious crypto miners belong to the category of malicious code designed to hijack idle processing power of a victim's device and use it to mine cryptocurrency. Victims are not asked to consent to such activity and even may be unaware that it is happening in the background.
- 8. Cap An estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares or coins outstanding by the current price of a share or coin
- 12. Requires the user to provide two means of authentication, what the user knows (password) and what the user has (security token)
- 14. A system of money in general use in a particular country, the fact or quality of being generally accepted or in use.
- 15. Indicates how many shares or coins are being sold on specific exchanges. It is a good indicator of the amount of interest in that share or coin.
- 16. Securities that represent part ownership or equity in a corporation
- 17. Money paid regularly at a particular rate for the use of money lent, or for delaying the repayment of a debt.
- 18. Gaining cryptocurrencies by solving cryptographic equations through the use of computers. This process involves validating data blocks and adding transaction records to a public record.
Down
- 1. A stock or bond sold by a corporation for the first time. Proceeds (money from sale) may be used to retire debts, build new plants or buy new equipment or for additional working capital.
- 2. It is a place where shares of pubic listed companies are traded. Facilitates stock brokers to trade company stocks and other securities. A stock may be bought or sold only if it is listed on an exchange. Thus, it is the meeting place of the stock buyers and sellers.
- 4. - A blockchain is a shared ledger where transactions are permanently recorded by appending blocks that serves as a historical record of all transactions that ever occurred
- 6. A digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds.
- 7. A cryptocurrency exchange, or a digital currency exchange, is a business that allows customers to trade cryptocurrencies or digital currencies for other assets, such as conventional fiat money or other digital currencies
- 9. A cryptocurrency wallet is a device, physical medium, program or a service which stores the public and/or private keys for cryptocurrency transactions. In addition to this basic function of storing the keys, a cryptocurrency wallet more often also offers the functionality of encrypting and/or signing information.
- 10. The system that prints or displays last sale prices and the volume of securities transactions on exchanges on a moving tape
- 11. Locking your crypto coin temporarily to support the network's security and consensus. As a reward, you'll earn the coin that miners transfer as part of the verification process.
- 12. An abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. May consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both.
- 13. Anything of value that is owned