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Demo account opening. The wallet is a kind of virtual bank account that allows users to send or receive bitcoins, pay for goods or save their money.

Unlike bank accounts, bitcoin wallets are not insured by the FDIC. Wallet in cloud: Servers have been hacked. Wallet on computer: You can accidentally delete them.

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Viruses could destroy them. Though each bitcoin transaction is recorded in a public log, names of buyers and sellers are never revealed — only their wallet IDs. No one knows what will become of bitcoin.

It is mostly unregulated, but some countries like Japan, China and Australia have begun weighing regulations. Nondeterministic Wallet In contrast, a nondeterministic wallet generates a private key for each transaction using a random number.

Known as "just a bunch of keys" JBOK , this earlier wallet was cumbersome because multiple keys must be backed up in order to keep track of all the user's coins in the network. See Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining.

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