Keys, addresses & ownership
“Owning bitcoin means knowing a secret.”
There are no coins inside your wallet — the coins live on the ledger. What your wallet holds is a private key: a secret number that can produce signatures proving the right to spend certain ledger entries. From that private key comes a public key, and from that, addresses — safe to share, like invoices.
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Education only — not financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. Never share your seed phrase with anyone.