FORK - PROOF- OF- STAKE (POS) - DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDOS) - INITIAL COIN OFFERING (ICO) -

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FORK
happens when someone offers (in exchange against cryptocurrencies like bitcoin or ethereum) investors some units of a new cryptocurrency or crypto-token. Source + Source
PROOF- OF- STAKE (POS)
the more bitcoin or altcoin owned by a miner, the more mining power he or she has. concept states that a person can mine or validate block transactions according to how many coins he or she holds. Source + Source
DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDOS)
it can also be used to describe a separate cryptocurrency which has been split from the main blockchain, such as namecoin being a “fork” of bitcoin. a split in the blockchain where there are temporarily two different blockchains which miners can work on. (this change is called a “hard fork”.) these can occur if software updates to a bitcoin client are incompatible or if developers decide that changes must be made to the programming of a coin. forks create an alternate version of the blockchain, leaving two blockchains to run simultaneously on different parts of the network. Source + Source
INITIAL COIN OFFERING (ICO)
often this comes with a severe attack on the network, creating an army of ‘zombie’ computers who simultaneously flood a targeted website or network with requests. can cause a sustained downtime on said network or even make them crash completely. a very dangerous threat for cryptocurrency users. Source + Source


FORK
it can also be used to describe a separate cryptocurrency which has been split from the main blockchain, such as namecoin being a “fork” of bitcoin. a split in the blockchain where there are temporarily two different blockchains which miners can work on. (this change is called a “hard fork”.) these can occur if software updates to a bitcoin client are incompatible or if developers decide that changes must be made to the programming of a coin. forks create an alternate version of the blockchain, leaving two blockchains to run simultaneously on different parts of the network. Source + Source
PROOF- OF- STAKE (POS)
the more bitcoin or altcoin owned by a miner, the more mining power he or she has. concept states that a person can mine or validate block transactions according to how many coins he or she holds. Source + Source
DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE (DDOS)
often this comes with a severe attack on the network, creating an army of ‘zombie’ computers who simultaneously flood a targeted website or network with requests. can cause a sustained downtime on said network or even make them crash completely. a very dangerous threat for cryptocurrency users. Source + Source
INITIAL COIN OFFERING (ICO)
happens when someone offers (in exchange against cryptocurrencies like bitcoin or ethereum) investors some units of a new cryptocurrency or crypto-token. Source + Source

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