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Mining is the process of confirming transactions and creating new blocks in the blockchain, for which network participants receive a reward in cryptocurrency in exchange for the computational work of their equipment.

A crowdsale is the public sale of tokens of a new crypto project, during which the team raises funding while participants acquire tokens before they reach the open market, often on more favorable terms.

A cryptocurrency faucet is a service that gives users tiny fractions of cryptocurrency for performing simple actions, for example entering a captcha or viewing ads, and it serves more as a learning tool than as a way to earn money.

Bitcoin Cash is a new cryptocurrency created as a branch of Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency separation occurred due to the necessity of changing old Bitcoin protocol with a new one in order to increase the transaction processing speed. Opinions of market participants have split into two camps and two branches were formed: one branch uses the new SegWit2x protocol and the another uses Bitcoin cash.

Bitcoin cryptocurrency was created by anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. The main idea was to create a decentralized database copies of which will be stored by all participants in the system in an encrypted form. Units of payment are bitcoins. Bitcoins are stored on special wallets. All information about the transactions is available in the open mode while the wallets are completely anonymous.