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Mainnet

It is the main network of Bitcoin, where the transactions of this cryptocurrency are registered and take place.

Margin Call

Margin call takes place when investor's margin account falls below the required amount to stay afloat.

Margin Trading

It is a way of investing by borrowing money from a broker (or in crypto, an exchange or platform) to trade

Market capitalization (market cap)

In Crypto, market cap is measured by multiplication of the circulating supply of tokens or currency and its current price

Market Maker

Participant of the market who creates buy and orders

Market Order / Market Buy / Market Sell

A market order is a buy or sell order of stocks or cryptocurrency at the best price available in the current market as soon as possible.

Market Taker

Participant of the market who buys and sells from currently existing orders

Masternodes

Computers that are responsible for processing blockchain transactions and receive a reward when a block is mined.

Mempool

It is the abbreviation of Memory Pool. Set of unconfirmed transactions in a blockchain

Merkle Tree

A Merkle tree is also known as a hash tree in cryptography. It is a tree where every lead node is labelled with cryptographic hash of a data block, and every non-leaf node is labelled with the hash of the labels of its child nodes. It is used to verify of data stored within it and transferable in and between computers.

Metaverse

The Metaverse is a virtual space where users are able to interact with each other in a computer generated environment.

MicroBitcoin (uBTC)

One millionth of a bitcoin or 0.000001 of a bitcoin. Microbitcoin is the abbreviation of uBTC and often misunderstood as the fork of Bitcoin.

Microtransaction

Microtransaction is a system that made very small payments possible in buying the common digital goods and services, such as purchasing items in a game.

Mineable

A cryptocurrency is said to be "mineable" when it has the system thrugh which miners can be rewarded with newly-created cryptocurrencies for creating blocks.

Miners

Contributors to a blockchain taking part in the process of mining.

Mining

It is the process of the miners verify and adding transaction recors into a block.

Mining Contract

Another term for cloud mining, where users can rent or invest in mining capacity online.

Mining Pool

Combination of resources of several miners to obtain a higher mining power and thus achieve greater rewards for the opening of blocks.

Mining Reward

The reward resulting from contributing computing resources to process transactions

Mining Rig

A dedicated hardware to mine

Mnemonic Phrase

A mnemonic phrase (also known as mnemonic seed, or seed phrase) is a list of words used in sequence to access or restore your cryptocurrency assets.

Mnemonics

Mnemonics are memory aids with a system such as letters or associations that help in recall. *see Mnemonic Phrase.

Money Printer Go Brrr

A meme made to describe the US Fed printing excessive amount of money to support the traditional financial market to avert the stock market crash during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Moon

"Moon" or "To the moon" is a crypto slang that describes an exclamation when the cryptocurrencies prices are rising and when it hit the peak, the coin is said to be "mooning".

Mt. Gox

Mtgox or Mt. Gox was one of the first websites where users could take part in fiat-to-bitcoin exchange (and vice versa).

Multisignal (multi-signature)

They are wallets that require more than one key for transactions to be authorized.