Homework on Role of Wallets - Questions

A wallet stores your public and private keys, creates transactions and signs them with your private key, and broadcasts your transactions to the network for validation.

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  1. Describe in short what a bitcoin wallet does.

A Bitcoin Wallet can create and store private keys.
It can create transactions.
Sign transactions.
Broadcast transactions to nodes.
Read the blockchain so it can verify your balance.

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  1. A bitcoin wallet holds your private key and it can be used to do transactions or to receive funds. When transacting the wallet will create a transaction and then will sign the transaction using your private key and then broadcast the transaction to the bitcoin network. When receiving fund your bitcoin wallet will query regularly the bitcoin network and notify you that you have new funds available.
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  1. Bitcoin wallet for example, allows you to make use of sending and receiving digital funds. It also allows you to hold your digital funds using a private access method. It consist of using Private keys belonging to only the recipient.
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It keeps your private keys and uses these keys in order to sign transactions. The transaction balance is updated in the ledger.

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Wallet is used to store private keys and sign transactions and read the blockchain

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A wallet, in short, holds your private keys. A wallet does not store your coins. The wallet allows signed transactions to be updated on the database

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Bitcoin wallet stores a private key, that is used to sign transactions, it stores a copy of the blockchain ledger. It also send’s and recieves coins.

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Save your Private Key(s)!

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It stores a private key, starts signed transactions and broadcast them to all the nodes in the network

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A Bitcoin wallet stores private keys, creates transactions, and broadcasts them using public keys to the Bitcoin network. It also allows for storage of value.

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Homework on Role of Wallets - Questions

  1. Describe in short what a bitcoin wallet does.
    Bitcoin Wallet:
  • stores private keys,
  • creates and signs transactions,
  • broadcasts transactions to network (blockchain)
  • reads blockchain for updated ledger information.

There really are no coins in the wallet, it is a copy of a data base, which is a Bitcoin ledger.

Nodes verify transactions and miners (are also nodes) add new information and confirm new transactions.

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A Bitcoin wallet creates a private key and stores the key. It also create a public key and a wallet adress to send and receive funds.

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A Bitcoin wallet stores your public and private keys, signs transactions, and checks your balance when queried.

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A bitcoin wallet allows you to keep full possession of your bitcoins. From it you can use your private key to sign payments.

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Signs transactions with your private key, and it transmits these transactions to the network database via nodes as well as can read the database.

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A bitcoin wallet stores your private key and uses it to sign transactions to prove authenticity. It does not store any coins as such. The wallet will broadcast your transactions to the network so that they can be verified and added to the blockchain by the network.

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  1. The bitcoin wallet stores a person’s private keys, which are used to create, sign and broadcast transactions to the bitcoin network and/or receive and read such. Unlike a normal wallet where you store coins/bills or any type of currency, the bitcoin wallet is really just a method of verifying yourself and giving yourself the permission to broadcast moving money from A to B to the public ledger.
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  1. A bitcoin wallet is a piece of software which stores your private key and uses it to sign transactions which then are broadcast to the Bitcoin network
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stores and creates public/private keys, signs, broadcasts and reads transactions.

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