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Crypto Accounting Glossary

Expand your crypto accounting vocabulary and stay up to date with key terminology. Our glossary provides clear definitions and explanations of essential terms, ensuring you can navigate the crypto world with confidence.

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Behavioral Finance

Behavioral finance is a field of study that investigates how psychological factors affect financial decision-making processes.
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Bid Price

The highest price that a buyer is willing to pay for an asset.
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Binance

Binance is an international cryptocurrency centralized exchange (CEX) known for its vast offering of digital currencies and user-centric features.
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Binance Smart Chain (BSC)

A blockchain platform built for smart contracts, developed by Binance.
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Bit

A 'bit' - a contraction of the term 'binary digit' - stands as the fundamental unit of data storage and communication, encapsulating a binary representation of either 0 or 1.
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BitLicense

The BitLicense is a business license for virtual currency activities, issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS).
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Bitcoin

The first decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is a digital currency created in 2009 by an anonymous person using the name Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a cryptocurrency that was created in 2017 from a fork of Bitcoin. The split was due to a disagreement on how to manage Bitcoin's scalability issues.
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Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)

Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) are design documents that introduce, describe, or explain new features or updates to the Bitcoin network.
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Block Height

Block height refers to the number of existing blocks connected in the blockchain.
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Block Reward

Block Reward is the reward received by a miner for processing transactions and adding a new block to the blockchain.
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Blockchain

A digital ledger where cryptocurrency transactions are recorded inside "blocks" that are linked sequentially, forming a "chain" of blocks.
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Blockchain Audit

An examination of blockchain transactions and records for accuracy.
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Blockchain Explorer

A tool to view data or transactions on a blockchain.
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Blockchain Network

A blockchain network is a decentralized and distributed digital ledger that records transactions across many computers.
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Bollinger Bands

Bollinger Bands are a technical analysis tool that depicts the volatility and overbought or oversold condition of a market.
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Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the systematic recording, storing, organizing and retrieving of financial transactions in a company.
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Brain Wallet

A brain wallet refers to the concept of memorizing a private key or seed phrase for a cryptocurrency wallet.
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Budget Variance

A measure of the difference between budgeted and actual figures for a particular accounting category.
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Bull Market

A bull market refers to a market condition where prices are rising or are expected to rise.
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Burned Coins

Coin burning is the process of permanently removing coins from circulation, reducing the total supply, by sending them to a so-called "eater address".
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Buy Order

A "Buy Order" is an instruction to purchase a specified amount of a specific cryptocurrency at a certain price point.
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Buy Wall

A buy wall is a situation in the market where a large limit order has been placed to purchase a cryptocurrency when it reaches a certain value.
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Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT)

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) is the property of a system that allows it to reach consensus despite failures or errors.
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Capital Gains

The profit earned from selling an asset or a cryptocurrency at a higher price than its original purchase price.
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Capital Loss

Capital Loss is the loss incurred when selling an asset or a cryptocurrency at a price lower than its original purchase price.
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Cardano

An open-source, proof-of-stake blockchain platform with a focus on smart contracts, similar to Ethereum.
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Cash Flow

The net amount of cash being transferred in and out of a business.
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Celsius Network

Celsius Network was a leading crypto lender offering users interest on cryptocurrency deposits. It filed for bankruptcy amid financial difficulties in 2022.
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Centralized Exchange (CEX)

A centralized exchange (CEX) is a platform where users can trade assets, such as cryptocurrencies, which is controlled by a central authority.
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