Homework on Role of Wallets - Questions

A crypto wallet signs transactions using the private key. A wallet can be on paper or on a ledger. There are also hosted wallets, that are not real crypto wallets, as they are a mere service exchanges offer to their customers.

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1: Basicaly, a wallet stores your Private Keys, send, receive, create and sign transactions and send this information to the network.

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a Bitcoin wallet stores your private key, creates your public key, signs, broadcasts and reads transactions from the public ledger on the blockchain. There are no (Bit)coins stored on/in the wallet.

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a wallet stores your private keys and creates and signs transactions on the network.

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A bitcoin wallet stores your private keys and is then used to sign a transaction to be sent to nodes on the network

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A wallet allows you to store your currency protected by a private key. When transactions are made the private key of that wallet create and signs the transaction which is then confirmed to the blockchain. Private keys are never given to the public.

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A bitcoin wallet stores the private key used to sign your bitcoin transactions.

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  1. Describe in short what a bitcoin wallet does.

A wallet generates and signs transactions, and displays wallet contents to the user.

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A bitcoin wallet is an application on a phone, computer or cold device that creates the transaction. The wallet assigns a private key to sign the transaction then broadcasts the transaction.

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Bitcoin wallet stores private keys to your funds. It doesn´t store any coins.
It create and sign transactions, broadcast it to blockchain, read blockchain and notify if transaction is confirmed. You can store your private keys in different wallets - node and SPV online and hardwallets offline. In addition there are hosted wallets which are not crypto wallets just apps used by exchanges.

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  1. Describe in short what a bitcoin wallet does.

Wallet allows us to interact with blockchain, it creates and stores private keys, signs transactions and share them to the network of nodes also it notificates of having funds available to spend

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A bitcoin wallet holds the user’s private key, generates a public key and also generates addresses by subjecting the public key to various mathematical functions.

Hardware and software wallets can also query nodes (and in some cases download the entire blockchain) to determine the funds (UTXOs) available to the public key. They can also broadcast transactions to the network and sign those transactions using (but not revealing) the private key.

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A bitcoin wallet is used to store your private keys. It also is used to facilitate your transactions with the network.

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  1. A Bitcoin wallet does the following; creates private keys, creates and signs transactions, broadcast transactions, reads the blockchain, stores private key but not actual “coins”.
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keeps your private key. signature to sign transactions.

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A bitcoin wallet can initiate transactions, signs it with their corresponding private key and broadcasts it to the network.

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A wallet stores your private keys. It signs your transactions and broadcast it to other peers. It can read received funds from the blockchain and notify the owner. There are full node wallets, SPV wallets and offline wallets. Offline wallets are paper wallets and hardware wallets. Hosted wallets are not considered as wallets because you don’t actually own the private key to the wallet.

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private key. broadcast transaction to the network, reads blockchain, creates and sign transactions

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A wallet stores private keys, creates and signs transactions, broadcasts transactions, and reads blockchain.

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