The cobra strike is a sharp and short-lived movement of a cryptocurrency's price up or down with a quick return to the previous level. Such a spike is often associated with high market volatility.

A bagholder is an investor who continues to hold an asset that has lost a lot of value, in the hope of a recovery. The term more often describes holders of declining coins with dubious prospects.

A paper wallet is a way of storing cryptocurrency in which the public address and private key are printed out on paper. It is a form of cold storage that is kept offline, away from the internet.

A blockmaker is a professional participant in a decentralized network who stores a full copy of the blockchain and helps maintain its operation, verify transactions and form new blocks.

Blockchain is a distributed database in the form of a chain of linked blocks. Its records are protected by cryptography and stored on many computers, which makes the data practically immutable.