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Our cryptocurrency glossary helps you decipher crypto jargon back into plain English. Learn the terms that you’ll come across on your crypto journey.

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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)

An international standards-setting and financial stability authority made up of 45 members representing 28 countries from around the world. Regarding cryptocurrency asset regulation, the Committee makes suggestions to banks on how to limit their exposure to crypto asset risk, in the form of varying capital requirements for different types of cryptocurrencies, such as stablecoins, or tokenized sticks, or non-stablecoin not-tokenized cryptocurrencies like bitcoin (BTC) and most altcoins

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The crypto market, born out of money meeting technology, covers a vast amount of subjects. Crypto not only covers cryptocurrency trading, but it includes everything from digital payments,...

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  1. Know Your Customer (KYC) 

    Regulations imposed by governments and regulatory agencies on financial institutions and services providers that require them to identify and verify their customer’s identities. The purpose of requiring KYC information primarily revolves around complying with anti-money-laundering programs that have been required by banks and other traditional finance companies and institutions for years.

The reality is that some percentage of trades in any methodology will lose money, no matter how good the approach is, and there is no way to know a priori which will be the winning trades.Jack D. Schwager