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A wallet manages a user's private keys. Wallet software is used to send and receive Bitcoin. It also keeps track of the user's transactions, addresses, and balance.

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If I buy Bitcoins at Coinbase.com, should I leave them on Coinbase.com, or should I move the...

If you want your own wallet to be safe, however, you will have to backup them yourself. … Also many of them have a Mobile App that you can use to access your wallet with. …
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Can my transactions be traced back to me even if I do this?

Well, that depends. First, never reuse addresses if you are doing this. Second, if you are not mixing, the transactions will, with no exception, be traceable. Would there be someone focused on you, h …
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Which part of my wallet should I NOT lose? .wallet file or private/public key?

In the original Satoshi wallet (BitcoinQt), your private keys are stored in the wallet.dat file. SO essentially, you may not lose either. … Most wallet clients call the file they store your keys in your "wallet". …
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What is the safest bitcoin wallet?

The true safest place to hold bitcoins is a paper wallet. However, they are not very convenient for spending the coins in it. … Examples of wallets implementing this are the original Bitcoin-Qt client (when you enable encryption), Armory but also shared wallet Blockchain's My Wallet (when a second password is enabled). …
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How do I transfer my wallet?

When you have a Coinbase account, you don't really have a wallet. So best thing to do in your case is to create an offline wallet of your choice and send all funds over to it from Coinbase. …
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Setting up: sending and email

If the transactions is shown in your Bitcoin-Qt client as having confirmations, then the transaction went through and is confirmed. Most systems consider a transaction as confirmed when it has one con …
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Does using deterministic wallets reduce our anonymity?

Most clients that support multiple deterministic addresses for a wallet, make sure it is impossible to know that two or more addresses are linked together. … However, the vulnerability of this method has nothing to do with the fact that you use a deterministic wallet. …
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What does this indicator mean in the right bottom cornor of the official Bitcoin wallet?

That icon indicates the state of your connection with the rest of the Bitcoin network. "8 active connections" mean that you are connected to 8 other clients. Since you got 3 of the 4 bars with 8 acti …
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Whats a site or app where I can extract a public key just by typing in a private key?

The BrainWallet website does the trick.
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Is it possible to spend partial amounts from a paper wallet?

You should be able to just make a transaction of any amount using My Wallet and it should just require you to enter/scan the private key to confirm/sign the transaction. …
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Would it be possible to generate a memorized wallet address by using a batch of phone numbers?

You could use the phone numbers as a passphrase for a Brain Wallet. …
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How do I get the public bitcoin address from a given private key in wallet import format off...

If I understand your problem correctly and you just want to calculate the address of a given private key, you could use brainwallet.org for that. The website is Javascript-based so you can just load t …
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How to use Bitcoin Wallet with MtGox?

You can then withdraw these bitcoins from your MtGox account to your own wallet. You can find this under Funding options > Withdraw funds > Bitcoin. … Enter the address your wallet gives you and MtGox will send your coins to that address so that they show up in your wallet. …
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Do I need to backup a wallet every time I generate a new address?

When you generate new accounts inside a wallet you will only have to make a back-up once. The backup key gives armory the possibility to create a indefinite series of addresses for your wallet. … This does not count for addresses you imported in a wallet! If you import private keys to a wallet, you will have to back-up them separately! …
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How to move an address to a new wallet?

You can move an address from one wallet to another using the setaccount command. It works as follows. …
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