Learn open, high, low, close before trusting any indicator overlay.

Bankruptcy tool to recover preferential withdrawals from customers who got out before the freeze.

Mixing client funds with firm trading inventory. Core allegation pattern in FTX and a standing CeFi red flag.

A common structure: nonprofit foundation holds IP or treasury, for-profit lab builds the product.

If you raise money on a promise of profits from a team's work, expect securities analysis.

A formula for bet size from edge and odds. Full Kelly is often too aggressive for crypto.

The trust, fund, or company that actually owns the real-world asset behind a token.

Borrowed size amplifies gains and losses. Most new traders are liquidated by sizing, not by the idea.

Thick books and pools absorb size. Thin liquidity turns small sells into crashes.

How spot, perps, ETFs, and OTC desks interact to set price.

An asset used to buy goods. Lightning and stablecoins compete for this role more than raw BTC for many users.

The distinction between growth measured in currency units and growth adjusted for changes in purchasing power, with taxes and fees considered separately where relevant.

Reading balances, flows, and contract events to understand holders and behavior.

Client code you can audit. Still verify downloads and reproduce builds when possible.

Games that pay tokens for play. Often collapse when token emissions outrun new player demand.

Returns paid mainly from new capital rather than productive cash flow. Many farms drift here.

A public write-up of what failed after an incident. Quality varies. Demand one.

The ability to inspect original records, identify what they actually establish, and distinguish evidence from interpretation or promotion.

A cryptographic demonstration about a committed set of obligations, often allowing customers to verify inclusion of their balances; its assurance depends on completeness, valuation and the surrounding accounting process.

A structured way to evaluate cryptographic research by separating its question, formal model, construction, evidence and limits from claims about a deployed product.

George Soros-style feedback where rising prices create narratives that create more rising prices, until they reverse.

Position size, leverage limits, and invalidation levels decided before entry.

The underlying bug or process failure, not just the stolen amount headline.

Basics every user needs: seed secrecy, URL checks, and never signing blind approvals.

Know issuer, reserves, attestation, and redemption path before treating a dollar token as cash.

An asset held to preserve purchasing power across time. Crypto SV narratives compete with gold and bonds.

Zones where price previously reacted. Tools for planning, not prophecy.

A distortion caused by studying only assets, funds, or projects that remain visible while omitting failed, delisted, or otherwise missing examples.

Pricing goods in an asset. Almost no economy prices in BTC; mostly USD and local fiat.

A shorthand history: static pages, then platform silos, then crypto-enabled ownership narratives.

The founding technical or economic document for a protocol. Read incentives and trust assumptions, not just vision slides.