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<h1 id="wallet">Wallet</h1>
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<h2 id="definition">Definition</h2>
<p>Software that stores <a href="/en/glossary/private-key" title="The private portion of a keypair which can create signatures that other people can verify using the public key." class="auto-link">private keys</a> and monitors the <a href="/en/glossary/block-chain" title="A chain of blocks with each block referencing the block that preceded it. The most-difficult-to-recreate chain is the best block chain." class="auto-link">block chain</a> (sometimes as a client of a server that does the processing) to allow users to spend and receive <a href="/en/glossary/denominations" title="Denominations of Dash value, usually measured in fractions of a dash but sometimes measured in multiples of a duff. One dash equals 100,000,000 duffs." class="auto-link">duffs</a>.</p>
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<li><a href="/en/glossary/hd-protocol" title="The Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) key creation and transfer protocol (BIP32), which allows creating child keys from parent keys in a hierarchy. Wallets using the HD protocol are called HD wallets." class="auto-link">HD wallet</a> (a protocol that allows all of a <a href="/en/glossary/wallet" title="Software that stores private keys and monitors the block chain (sometimes as a client of a server that does the processing) to allow users to spend and receive duffs." class="auto-link">wallets</a> keys to be created from a single seed)</li>
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<p><a href="/en/developer-guide#wallets">Wallets</a> — Developer Guide</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Wallet">Wallet</a> — Bitcoin Wiki</p>
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<p><a href="http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/1600">Where are the users bitcoins actually stored?</a> — Bitcoin StackExchange</p>
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