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  2. MetaMask - Wikipedia

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    MetaMask is a software cryptocurrency wallet used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain.It allows a user to access their Ethereum wallet through a browser extension or mobile app, which can then be used to interact with decentralized applications.

  3. Cryptocurrency wallet - Wikipedia

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    An example paper printable bitcoin wallet consisting of one bitcoin address for receiving and the corresponding private key for spending. A cryptocurrency wallet is a device, [1] physical medium, [2] program or an online service which stores the public and/or private keys [3] for cryptocurrency transactions.

  4. Airdrop (cryptocurrency) - Wikipedia

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    An airdrop is an unsolicited distribution of a cryptocurrency token or coin, usually for free, to numerous wallet addresses. Airdrops are often associated with the launch of a new cryptocurrency or a DeFi protocol, primarily as a way of gaining attention and new followers, resulting in a larger user base and a wider disbursement of coins. [1]

  5. Blockchain - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the fork resulted in a split creating Ethereum and Ethereum Classic chains. In 2014 the Nxt community was asked to consider a hard fork that would have led to a rollback of the blockchain records to mitigate the effects of a theft of 50 million NXT from a major cryptocurrency exchange .

  6. Ethereum Classic - Wikipedia

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    Ethereum Classic addresses are composed of the prefix "0x", a common identifier for hexadecimal, concatenated with the rightmost 20 bytes of the Keccak-256 hash of the ECDSA public key (the curve used is the so-called secp256k1, the same as bitcoin). In hexadecimal, two digits represent a byte, meaning addresses contain 40 hexadecimal digits.

  7. List of cryptocurrencies - Wikipedia

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    Ethereum: ETH, Ξ Vitalik Buterin [50] Ethash [51] C++, Go [52] PoW, PoS: Supports Turing-complete smart contracts. 2015 Ethereum Classic: ETC EtcHash/Thanos [53] PoW: An alternative version of Ethereum [54] whose blockchain does not include the DAO hard fork. [55] Supports Turing-complete smart contracts. 2015 Nano: XNO, Ӿ Colin LeMahieu ...

  8. Decentralized application - Wikipedia

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    The first DApp on the Ethereum blockchain was published on April 22, 2016. [5] From May 2017, the number of DApps being developed have grown at a higher rate. [5] After February 2018, DApps have been published every day. [5] Less than one fifth of DApps capture almost all the DApp users on the Ethereum blockchain. [5]

  9. Cryptocurrency - Wikipedia

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    A cryptocurrency wallet is a means of storing the public and private "keys" (address) or seed, which can be used to receive or spend the cryptocurrency. [83] With the private key, it is possible to write in the public ledger, effectively spending the associated cryptocurrency.