Cryptocurrency, or crypto for short, refers to a digital asset that is intended to act as a digital form of money. It uses cryptography to secure and verify all types of digital transactions as well as to control the creation of additional units of currency. Cryptocurrency typically operates independently of a central bank, but is instead powered and supported by a decentralized network of computers running its own “blockchain”—a distributed database of digital records, continually updated and stored across multiple locations or machines. ...