Dusting Attack
By CoinGecko | Updated on Aug 13, 2021
A new form of malicious activity in which hackers and scammers attempt to undermine the privacy of cryptocurrency users by sending little amounts of money to their wallets. The attackers then track the transactional activity of these wallets, combining several addresses to deanonymize the person or entity behind each wallet.
Related Terms
Bloodbath
In context of trading, the term bloodbath is commonly used to describe a market which is on a downtrend with many assets suffering from value depreciation.
Transactions Per Second (TPS)
It is number of transactions done per second. For example, there are 10 transactions of Bitcoin done in 1-minute. The TPS would be 10 transactions/60 seconds = ~0.17 TPS.
Address Delegation
Delegation of a wallet's stake to a Super Staker
Privacy Coins
Cryptocurrencies that are designed with transaction anonimity and user privacy in mind.
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