Decentralized Exchange (DEX)

A trading platform that doesn't hold users' funds for them and doesn't require them to deposit money in order to start trading. Users trade straight from their own wallets instead.

Ransomware

Ransomware is a type of malware (malicious software) that has the final goal of convincing victims to pay for a decryption ransom in order to recover their compromised files or system. The payments are normally asked in digital currencies that are difficult to be traced, such as Bitcoin, Monero, or any other cryptocurrency.

Candidate Block

In a few words, a candidate block is a block that a mining node (miner) is trying to mine in order to receive the block reward. So a candidate block may be described as a temporary block that will be either validated or discarded by the network. Miners compete with each other to validate the next block and add it to the blockchain, but first, they have to create a candidate block to participate in the mining competition.

Satoshi (SATS)

The smallest unit of bitcoin with a value of 0.00000001 BTC.