Beginner's Guide
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the world's first widely adopted cryptocurrency — it allows for secure and seamless peer-to-peer transactions on the internet.
Crypto basics
New to crypto? Not for long — start with these guides and explainers
Beginner's Guide
What is cryptocurrency?
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other crypto are revolutionizing how we invest, bank, and use money. Learn more in this beginner's guide.
Beginner's guide
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap after Bitcoin. It is also a decentralized computing platform that can run a wide variety of applications — including the...
Beginner's guide
What is a blockchain?
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are powered by a technology called the blockchain.
Beginner's guide
How to keep your crypto secure
You can dramatically improve your digital security with just a few easy steps
Tax guide
Understanding your crypto taxes
Not sure if you owe taxes on your crypto? Learn how using crypto this year can affect your U.S. taxes.
Your crypto
How to invest in crypto via your retirement account
Over the last few years, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have fast emerged as a truly mainstream asset class with a multi-trillion dollar market capitalization. As a result many...
Crypto resources
What to read, watch, and stream
Our guide to the best and smartest crypto articles, podcasts, and YouTube videos.
Beginner's Guide
7 biggest Bitcoin myths
Look at some of the biggest myths and misconceptions people tend to have about the world’s...
Glossary
Don’t let FUD give you FOMO or you’ll end up REKT — crypto slang, explained
From diamond hands to the flippening, we break down 11 of the most popular pieces of crypt...
What is the Lightning Network?
A beginner’s guide to the “layer 2” technology that’s making bitcoin payments faster and c...
Glossary
Expand your crypto vocabulary
Beginner's Guide
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the world's first widely adopted cryptocurrency — it allows for secure and seamless peer-to-peer transactions on the internet.
Beginner's guide
What is Ethereum?
Ethereum is the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap after Bitcoin. It is also a decentralized computing platform that can run a wide variety of applications — including the...
Beginner's Guide
What is cryptocurrency?
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other crypto are revolutionizing how we invest, bank, and use money. Learn more in this beginner's guide.
Beginner's guide
What is a blockchain?
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are powered by a technology called the blockchain.
Key term
What is Axie Infinity?
A beginner’s guide to the hit NFT-based Pokémon-style game — and its native cryptocurrency...
Key term
What is a Bitcoin halving?
A Bitcoin halving happens every four years, when the amount of bitcoin awarded to miners i...
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What is a bull or bear market?
Markets experiencing sustained and/or substantial growth are called bull markets. Markets...
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What is Cardano?
Cardano is one of the biggest cryptocurrencies by market cap. It’s designed to a flexible,...
What is CeFi?
Learn how to earn interest on your savings or take out a loan using crypto as collateral
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What is cryptography?
Cryptography is the study and practice of sending secure and encrypted messages between tw...
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What is DeFi?
DeFi is short for decentralized finance, an umbrella term for peer-to-peer financial servi...
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What is a DEX?
A beginner’s guide to decentralized exchanges
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What is Dogecoin?
DOGE was created as a lighthearted alternative to traditional cryptocurrencies, but it's b...
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What is an ETF?
Exchange-traded funds — better known as an ETFs — are similar in many ways to mutual fund...
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What is a fork?
A fork happens whenever a community makes a change to the blockchain’s protocol, or basic...
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What is inflation?
Inflation is the process by which a currency like the dollar or Euro loses value over time...
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What is Internet Computer (ICP)?
The Internet Computer is creating a decentralized internet — with independent data centers...
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What is market cap?
Market capitalization is the total value of all the coins that have been mined.
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What is mining?
Mining is the process that Bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies use to mint new coin...
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What is a non-fungible token (NFT)?
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a kind of cryptoasset in which each token is unique. They c...
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What is Polkadot (DOT)?
A beginner's guide to the Polkadot protocol
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What is Polygon (MATIC)?
A beginner's guide to the Polygon network
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What is a protocol?
Protocols are basic sets of rules that establish the structure of a blockchain and allow d...
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What is a private key?
A private key is like a password that allows you to access and manage your crypto funds.
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What is a recovery phrase?
A recovery phrase is a series of words generated by your cryptocurrency wallet that give y...
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What is a smart contract?
Smart contracts allow developers to build apps that take advantage of blockchain security,...
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What is a stablecoin?
A stablecoin is a digital currency that is pegged to a “stable” reserve asset like the U.S...
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What is technical analysis?
Technical analysis looks at patterns in market data to identify trends. Fundamental analys...
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What is a token?
Technically, “token” is just another word for “cryptocurrency” or “cryptoasset.” But incre...
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What is volatility?
Volatility is a measure of how much the price of an asset has moved up or down over time.
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What is Uniswap?
A beginner’s guide to the biggest DEX on Ethereum
