But in order to make a change to blockchain data such as sending funds to someone or minting an NFT, you need to send a "transaction" to the blockchain.
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Newcomers to #crypto generally face one big problem — since we use a lot of jargon, many fundamental concepts are hard to understand.
I'm going to attempt to simplify things with plain English explanations for many crypto concepts.
Let's start with: #Wallets
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But in order to make a change to blockchain data such as sending funds to someone or minting an NFT, you need to send a "transaction" to the blockchain.
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1⃣ What the Tx will do? (ex: transfer funds)
2⃣ Information needed for the Tx? (ex: amount, recipient)
3⃣ Tx fees (aka "gas")
4⃣ Authorization for the Tx via a digital signature
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The "you" in this case is not you, the person.
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The private key is a secret piece of information associated with your blockchain account that is used by a special tool to digitally sign the sealed Tx envelope.
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🎉 Wallet 🎉
In a nutshell, a crypto Wallet is a tool used to manage a list of accounts and their private keys that are necessary to sign blockchain transactions.
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That friends, is the biggest misconception about crypto Wallets.
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Crypto Wallets are a tool to manage your accounts and private keys — that's it.
Your crypto assets are ALWAYS data entries on the blockchain ledger, not in your crypto Wallet
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Your cryptocurrency — not in your Wallet
Your tokens — not in your Wallet
Your NFTs — not in your Wallet
So where are they?
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Coins you own — an entry for your account in the ledger of the blockchain on which that Coin is a native cryptocurrency
Tokens and NFTs you own — an entry for your account in the Smart Contract that issued the token
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A crypto Wallet is a tool used to manage blockchain accounts and associated private keys.
Crypto assets are never in a Wallet, they always remain on the blockchain.
You can use multiple Wallets for the same account — just the UI will be different not the data.
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Here's a video with more information about crypto Wallets https://t.co/wfzEIVyUkQ
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