Halving

A price-and-supply snapshot: quoted token price multiplied by a stated supply figure. It is useful for scale comparisons only when the price, supply definition, time, and data source are disclosed; it is not a valuation or liquidity guarantee.

Special-purpose hardware designed to perform a narrow computation efficiently. In proof-of-work mining, an ASIC is normally built for a particular hashing algorithm; it cannot be assumed to work for every network or remain profitable.

A measure of tokens removed from a supply under a specified protocol or issuer mechanism. A burn can change supply accounting, but it does not by itself determine value or price.

In a proof-of-work system, the process of building candidate blocks and repeatedly hashing their headers until one meets the network target. A valid block is still accepted only if it follows the network's consensus rules.

A consensus approach in which a candidate block must demonstrate hashing work below a network target before nodes can accept it if all other consensus rules are met. Its security, energy use, and attack costs are network- and time-specific.