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PayPal holds Bitcoin. It holds a lot of it.  The online payments giant (NASDAQ:PYPL) rolled out a crypto service in the US in October 2020, allowing customers to buy and sell a limited selection of cr...

What does HODL mean? Crypto’s most enduring meme explained | Blockchain Glossary| OKX Academy

A beginner-friendly introduction to one of the digital asset community’s oldest memes “HODL” is a meme that has been a staple of the cryptocurrency community for longer than most digital assets have e...

What is SegWit? An introduction to Bitcoin’s on-chain scaling approach | Blockchain Glossary| OKX Academy

A beginner-friendly introduction to Bitcoin’s SegWit, including what SegWit is, why it’s important and what it achieves SegWit is the name of a Bitcoin upgrade implemented via a soft fork in August 20...

CBDC | Blockchain Glossary| OKX Academy

A digital currency created by a central bank that is loosely inspired by Bitcoin and other crypto assets CBDC stands for central bank digital currency. Loosely inspired by Bitcoin and other crypto ass...

Yield farming | Blockchain Glossary| OKX Academy

Attempting to maximize returns generated from the use of decentralized finance protocols Yield farming is a strategy DeFi protocol users leverage to attempt to generate maximum returns when interactin...

Trading | Blockchain Glossary| OKX Academy

The buying and selling of assets in the pursuit of profit In its simplest form, a trader will buy an asset with the hope to later sell it at a higher price. The difference between the two prices is th...

What are NFTs? Establishing provenance in the information age  | Blockchain Glossary| OKX Academy

A beginner-friendly introduction to the NFT phenomena, explaining what they are and why they matter  Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are tokens representing some digital asset that reside on a blockchain...

What is a Bitcoin ATM?  | Blockchain Glossary| OKX Academy

A beginner-friendly explainer about Bitcoin ATMs, including how they work, how to find them, and their advantages and disadvantages A Bitcoin ATM is a general term for a machine that enables users to ...