cryptocurrency

See also: crypto currency

English

Alternative forms

• crypto currency, crypto-currency

Etymology

From crypto- +‎ currency.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪp.toʊˌkɝ.ən.si/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

cryptocurrency (countable and uncountable, plural cryptocurrencies)

1. A digital currency based on a cryptographic system, usually having no central issuing or regulating authority.

   Synonym: (informal) crypto

   Hypernyms: digital currency, cybercurrency; < currency

   Bitcoin was the first decentralized cryptocurrency.

   • 1995 July 26, Daniel Akst, “Info Highway May Convert Your PC Into a Gambling Mecca”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1]:

     As secure Internet payment systems develop, of course, betting will become easier. And if some form of digital cash—crypto-currency that can be exchanged like cash via the Internet—really does take hold, betting will be even easier still.

   • 2013 November 17, Nick Bilton, “Disruptions: A Digital Underworld Cloaked in Anonymity”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     Then there is bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has been skyrocketing in value lately. Bitcoin is basically virtual cash — anonymous, untraceable currency stuffed into a mobile wallet.

   • 2023 March 26, Alex Hern, quoting Michael Kagan, “Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia”, in The Guardian‎^[3], →ISSN:

     The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not “bring anything useful for society” despite the company’s powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector.

   • 2023 February 2, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, “Alleged Perpetrator Of $100 Million Crypto Market Manipulation Scheme To Make Initial Appearance In The Southern District Of New York”, in justice.gov‎^[4], sourced from justice.gov:

     As alleged in the Indictment filed on January 9, 2023, EISENBERG engaged in a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $110 million worth of cryptocurrency from the cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets and its customers and achieved this objective by artificially manipulating the price of certain perpetual futures contracts.

   • 2023 November 30, Alessandro Mascellino, “North Korean Hackers Amass $3bn in Cryptocurrency Heists”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     According to Recorded Future’s research, the regime considers cryptocurrency theft a significant revenue source, primarily funding military and weapons programs.

Derived terms

• crypterati
• cryptocurrency wallet

 

Related terms

• cryptobro
• crypto business

 

Translations

type of digital currency

• Arabic: عُمْلَة مُعَمَّاة f (ʕumla muʕammāh), مُشَفَّرَة f (mušaffara)
• Armenian: կրիպտոարժույթ (hy) (kriptoaržuytʻ)
• Azerbaijani: kriptovalyuta
• Bashkir: криптовалюта (kriptovalyuta)
• Belarusian: крыптавалю́та f (kryptavaljúta)
• Bulgarian: криптовалу́та f (kriptovalúta)
• Catalan: criptomoneda f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加密貨幣／加密货币 (zh) (jiāmì huòbì)

• Czech: kryptoměna (cs) f
• Danish: kryptovaluta c
• Dutch: cryptogeld (nl) n, cryptovaluta (nl) f, cryptomunt (nl) f
• Esperanto: kriptomono, ĉifromono
• Estonian: krüptoraha
• Finnish: kryptovaluutta (fi)
• French: cryptomonnaie (fr) f
• Galician: criptomoeda f, criptodivisa f
• Georgian: კრიპტოვალუტა (ḳriṗṭovaluṭa)
• German: Kryptowährung (de) f, Kryptogeld n
• Greek: κρυπτονόμισμα (el) n (kryptonómisma)
• Hungarian: kriptovaluta (hu), kriptopénz
• Italian: criptovaluta f
• Japanese: 暗号通貨 (ja) (あんごうつうか, angō tsūka)
• Kazakh: криптовалюта (kriptovalüta)
• Khmer: រូបិយប័ណ្ណគ្រីបតូ (ruubəybannɑɑkriiptou), លុយគ្រីបតូ (luykriiptou)
• Korean: 암호화폐(暗號貨幣) (ko) (amhohwapye)
• Kyrgyz: криптовалюта (kriptovalyuta)
• Latin: cryptocurrentia f
• Latvian: kriptonauda f
• Lithuanian: kriptovaliuta f
• Macedonian: криптовалу́та f (kriptovalúta)
• Malay: kriptowang, mata wang kripto
• Maori: moni whitirangi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kryptovaluta m

  Nynorsk: kryptovaluta m

• Persian: رمزارز (ramzârz)
• Polish: kryptowaluta (pl) f
• Portuguese: criptomoeda (pt) f, criptodivisa f
• Romanian: criptomonedă f, criptovalută f
• Russian: криптовалю́та (ru) f (kriptovaljúta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: криптовалута f

  Roman: kriptovaluta f

• Sicilian: crittuvaluta f, cryptovaluta f
• Slovak: kryptomena f
• Slovene: kriptovaluta f
• Spanish: criptomoneda (es) f
• Swedish: kryptovaluta (sv) c
• Tajik: рамзарз (ramzarz), криптоасъор (kriptoasʾor)
• Telugu: క్రిప్టోకరెన్సీ (kripṭōkarensī)
• Turkish: kripto para, kripto döviz
• Ukrainian: криптовалю́та f (kryptovaljúta)
• Uyghur: شىفىرلىق پۇل (shifirliq pul)
• Uzbek: kriptovalyuta
• Vietnamese: tiền mã hóa

See also

• cybercrime
• money laundering
• ransomware

 

Further reading

• cryptocurrency on Wikipedia.Wikipedia