An altcoin is any cryptocurrency other than bitcoin. The term unites thousands of projects: from bitcoin forks to independent blockchains with their own technologies and use cases.

AML (Anti Money-Laundering) is a set of legal and technical measures designed to prevent the legalization of illegally obtained funds through cryptocurrency services and exchanges and to make the industry more transparent.

A 51% attack is a scenario in which more than half of a network's computing power is controlled by a single participant or group, which theoretically makes it possible to manipulate transaction confirmation.

An ASIC is an integrated circuit designed to perform a single task. In mining, such chips are used for the most efficient computation of a specific cryptocurrency algorithm.

An ASIC miner is a cryptocurrency mining device built on specialized ASIC chips. It is tailored to a specific algorithm and is significantly more efficient than universal hardware.