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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python
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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

by Harish Garg
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
90 pages
1h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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The different forms of bitcoin wallet

Bitcoin wallets come in a lot of different forms. Some of them are listed here:

  • There are smartphone app wallets, there are online web wallets—for example, blockchain.info and coinbase.info—there are desktop-based wallets for macOS, Linux, and Windows operating systems, and there are also dedicated hardware-based wallets.
  • Online web wallets can be accessed from any web browser and from any operating system, so that makes it quite platform-independent:
    • One of the most popular ones is coinbase.info, where you can purchase and send bitcoins.
    • There are a few others as well, such as BitGo, BTC.com, Coin.Space, GreenAddress, and so on. There are also mobile wallets that you can use from your smartphone. They ...
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