Qu’est-ce que Wallet ?
Software or hardware that manages keys, derives addresses, and constructs and signs transactions.
A wallet does not "contain" bitcoin. Coins exist as UTXOs on the chain; the wallet holds the keys that authorise spending them and tracks which outputs those keys control.
That distinction matters practically: restoring a seed phrase in different software recovers the same coins, because the coins were never in the app.
Losing the app does not lose the coins. Losing the seed phrase does.
Termes liés
Seed phrase
Twelve or twenty-four words from which every key in a wallet is derived. Anyone with the words has the coins.
Keys & custodyHD wallet
A hierarchical deterministic wallet, where an unlimited tree of keys is derived from one seed.
Comment ça marcheUTXO
An unspent transaction output: a discrete chunk of bitcoin locked to a condition. Bitcoin has no account…
Keys & custodyHardware wallet
A dedicated device that stores private keys and signs transactions without exposing the keys to an…
Cette définition fait partie du glossaire Bitcoin Logical. Pour l’explication complète, commencez par Apprendre, ou consultez les chiffres en direct sur Le Signal Bitcoin.