Non-custodial
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
It is a decentralized type-of-wallet, where the users owns its private keys. Having the private keys equals to you owning full control of your funds but the danger is if you lose your private keys, you will lose your funds forever.
Related Terms
Circulating Supply
An approximation of the number of coins or tokens that are currently not locked and available for public transactions.
Byzantine Fault
A byzantine fault is where an error has occured, yet a computer system does not know due which component/what failed to the lack of information and continues to iterate on a given instruction.
Public Keys
The alphanumeric string which serves as a public receiving address in cryptocurrencies.
Mainnet
It is the main network of Bitcoin, where the transactions of this cryptocurrency are registered and take place.
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