Early birds are the first participants or investors in a project who join at the very start and usually receive tokens at a more favorable price or with additional bonuses.
Inflating the hype is the artificial stoking of interest around a crypto project or token through intrusive advertising and exaggerated promises, which often accompanies dubious and fraudulent schemes.
Data partitioning, or sharding, is a way of scaling a blockchain in which the network is divided into segments (shards), and nodes store and process only part of the data, increasing overall throughput.
A paid poster is a user who, for payment, publishes laudatory messages about a project or negative ones about competitors. Such reviews create an artificial backdrop and mislead.
A dust transaction is a transfer of an extremely small amount of cryptocurrency, almost devoid of financial value. Such tiny amounts clutter the blockchain and can be used for deanonymization.
A mining pool is an association of miners who jointly search for a new block and split the reward in proportion to the power they contribute. This increases the chances of a stable income.
Profit is the gain obtained as a result of trading, investing or participating in a cryptocurrency project. It indicates a positive financial result of activity.
A stale block is a block or unit of a miner's work that has lost relevance because the network or pool has already accepted another result. Such work brings no reward.