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8. How to Choose the Wallet

Slava Gomzin1  
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Frisco, TX, USA
 

The task of helping the drowning people is in the hands of the drowning people themselves.

—Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov. The Twelve Chairs

To tell the truth, this chapter should be the first one in this book. So, if you skipped it all the way to this chapter, I totally get that. But if you didn’t and already read previous chapters, I hope it will be easier for you to understand how different wallets work and what pros and cons each type of wallet has.

When it comes to selecting a wallet, it’s all about two things: private key storage ...

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