Cryptocurrency is the umbrella term used to refer to monetary digital assets that are built by leveraging cryptography for its security.
A prime defining feature of cryptocurrency’s, are their organic governance structures. Cryptocurrencies are decentralized (not issued by any central authority), thus theoretically rendering them immune to government interference or manipulation. Moreover, cryptocurrencies inhibits the innate properties of sound money; they are portable, divisible, units of account and stores of value.