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Custody

Who actually holds the keys. Self-custody means you do; a custodian means a regulated firm does, which shifts…

Fiscal policy

What a government does with taxation and spending, as distinct from monetary policy, which is set by the…

Proof of work

A method of securing a blockchain by requiring real computing effort to add blocks. It is deliberately expensive,…

API

An application programming interface: a defined way for one piece of software to ask another for data or…

Artificial intelligence

Software that performs tasks normally associated with human judgement, such as recognising images or writing text. The current…

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