Wallets on different platforms

Depending on the form they exist in or the platform they are available on, we call wallets hardware wallets, desktop wallets, web wallets, or mobile wallets. Some wallets don't exist just in one platform, and they can be used on desktop, web, and mobile devices. Smart contract wallets are special; we will talk about this type of wallet in detail in the next section.

Hardware wallets are the safest kind of wallet to manage and trade with ether. As we mentioned earlier, the deterministic wallet provides enhanced security by allowing the owner of the wallet to store the private keys offline. It is the same concept here. Hardware wallets don't grant web server access to private keys naturally when the transactions ...

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