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LEO$8.99+0.26%From your first block to the finer details. Explore the ideas, people, and systems behind the market—one useful explanation at a time.
Follow a transaction from a key to a shared ledger.
Begin with BlockchainExplore contracts, liquidity, borrowing and the risks between them.
Begin with Smart contractUnderstand what a price, valuation or sentiment indicator can tell you.
Begin with Market capitalizationLearn custody, permissions and how to assess what you sign.
Begin with Hardware walletConnect the original ideas to the incidents that changed the industry.
Begin with A Cypherpunk's ManifestoSeparate technical standards, issuer claims and legal frameworks.
Begin with Howey testThe 2021 Christie's sale of Beeple's Everydays collage that mainstreamed NFT price headlines.
A temporary Bitcoin consensus split caused by differing block-handling behavior between software versions, documented in BIP-50.
An August 2010 Bitcoin validation bug that allowed an invalidly large output total, followed by a software fix and a chain reorganization.
A high-profile lending and trading scam that collapsed in 2018 after promising impossible yields.
Theft of about 120,000 BTC from Bitfinex. Later U.S. seizures of related coins became a landmark recovery story.
Yuga Labs' ape PFPs that became the 2021 status NFT, then a symbol of NFT-winter drawdowns.
Definitions offer a starting point. Detailed readings include the sources behind the explanation.