Chapter 9: Ethereum Wallets: Send and Receive Ether with MyEtherWallet

by Bruno Škvorc

In this chapter, we’ll go through the process of generating your first Ethereum wallet and sending and receiving ether through the MyEtherWallet (MEW) interface.

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After opening the site, please bookmark it so you never have to type it into your browser again. There are many bad people who want your ether, and they’ve bought domains similar to the domain of this site hoping you’ll fall into that trap by mistyping!

Immediately after loading, the page will display some warnings about them not being a bank and basically not being able to help you if you lose your funds because they don’t have access to them. The gist of it is that you’re ...

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