Crypto Basics

Don't let address poisoning attacks ruin your day! Keep your coins safe from this new sneaky crypto scam!

A utility NFT is an NFT that, unlike regular NFTs, offers the holder direct and intrinsic value by granting access to specific privileges.

Floor price is the lowest price an NFT is listed for sale within an NFT collection.

NFT sniping is the practice of swiftly identifying and purchasing newly listed or undervalued NFTs, typically using bots, before others have the opportunity to buy them

Sweeping the floor is a strategy deployed by some NFT traders, where they buy a lot of NFTs at or near the floor price of the collection.

Sergey Nazarov is an investor and entrepreneur who is best known for founding Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network.

The former programmer and criminal cartel boss, Paul Calder Le Roux, became a Satoshi Nakamoto suspect in the spring of 2019.

Known as the "godfather of cryptocurrency," American cryptographer David Chaum has significantly impacted the fields of digital security and privacy.

Adam Back is a respected and experienced cryptographer who was an early innovator in the blockchain space.

Coins versus tokens — just two sides of the same crypto coins? Not quite — learn the difference between these two terms.

Martti Malmi is a Finnish computer scientist and software developer who helped Satoshi develop Bitcoin during its first two years of operation.

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn is an American computer scientist, cryptographer and cypherpunk who was involved in Bitcoin in the early days, and later created Zcash.

Michael Clear was an Irish computer science and cryptography graduate from Trinity College in Dublin.

David Kleiman was a cybersecurity expert and forensic analyst who was associated with Craig Wright.

Gavin Andresen is an American software developer best known for managing Bitcoin’s development after Satoshi Nakamoto disappeared.

Wei Dai is a computer scientist known for theorizing b-money: an anonymous, distributed cash system similar to Bitcoin.

Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, cryptographer and Cypherpunk known for his pioneering work on digital contracts and currencies.

Craig Wright is an Australian entrepreneur and computer scientist who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin, although his claims are widely disputed by the cryptocurrency community.