Leverage
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
It is an investment strategy to gain potential return of the investment by borrowing the money. For example, you could loan from an exchange to conduct a margin trading, where you leverage your positions by buying asset at a low price (with the borrowed money) and sell them at a higher price.
Related Terms
Mineable
A cryptocurrency is said to be "mineable" when it has the system thrugh which miners can be rewarded with newly-created cryptocurrencies for creating blocks.
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
A strategy to dissuade people from buying a particular cryptocurrency by spreading false information
Sim Swapping
It is a tactic where hacker overtake the mobile phone to exploit the two-factor authentication and two-step verification.
Unspent Transaction Output
(abbv. "UTXO") Coins that are unspent in the wallet. UTXO virtually represents the cryptocurrency one own in the wallet.
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