AA points out: 'wallet' was a poor choice of word, 'keychain' would be better.

Andreas Antonopoulos points out how, in the early days, certain terms like "coin" and "wallet" were selected in an apparent attempt to make it easier for people to understand, but some of these terms have ended up causing a lot of confusion.

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For example, our "coins" are not stored in our "wallets". lol You can't just copy your physical wallet (the one in your pocket or handbag). You can go to a hardware store and copy a key (or ring full of keys), and both keys will open the same locks. It's important to protect our keys, and to have an emergency back up copy stored in a secure, but separate location.

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Submitted September 15, 2018 at 07:50PM by DelfinGuy https://ift.tt/2DbOApZ

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