Bitcoin wallet
The best crypto wallet for your Bitcoin
Secure your Bitcoin tokens with the most trusted crypto wallet. Cold storage wallets are encrypted devices that store your Bitcoin assets offline, providing a layer of security against the evolving threats emerging from being connected to the internet.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the first successful form of digital money based on peer-to-peer technology that facilitates decentralized transactions whereby. No central bank or centralized authority is involved in the transaction and production of the Bitcoin currency. The Bitcoin network records transactions on a distributed ledger (blockchain) comprising multiple nodes (computers) globally.
Bitcoin was created by an anonymous individual/group under the name, Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonymous cypherpunk, published the Bitcoin white paper on October 31, 2008. The source code is available publicly as an open-source project, anybody can look at it and be part of the developmental process.
Following are some of Bitcoin’s important characteristics:
- Scarce: Bitcoin is designed to have a finite supply of 21 million BTC ever created, thus making it an anti-inflationary financial asset.
- Fungible: Bitcoin is a fungible asset such that every coin is identical and equivalent to another.
- Divisible: Bitcoin’s divisibility follows from its fungibility. 1 BTC is thus divisible into satoshis (sats), up to eight decimal places (1 BTC = 100 million sats).
Regarding Bitcoin mining, miners today are mining Bitcoin using ASIC chips dedicated to mining Bitcoin. Bitcoin uses the SHA-256 hashing algorithm with an average transaction confirmation time of 10 minutes.
Bitcoin has inspired other alternative currencies such as Litecoin, Peercoin, Primecoin, and so on.
What is a Bitcoin wallet?
A Bitcoin wallet is a digital wallet that allows you to send and receive BTC.
By creating a Bitcoin wallet, key pairs are created: private keys for sending and public keys for receiving.
Your Bitcoin wallet stores the cryptographic key pairs, not the coins. Your BTC are stored on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Ledger hardware wallet
Ledger hardware wallet stores your private keys and signs transactions offline, making them resistant to malicious attacks and threats.
Ledger Live App
Ledger Live App is a gateway to managing your assets, staking and earning passive income, checking your real-time balance, tracking transaction histories, and more.
How to create a Bitcoin cryptocurrency wallet?
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Get a Ledger Nano
Select and purchase a Ledger wallet of your choice.
- Beginner in the crypto world? Get started with Nano S Plus.
- Prefer a Bluetooth connection? Try with Nano X.
02
Download and install what could be the best app for crypto: Ledger Live
Download and install Ledger Live in a couple of clicks. Ledger Live is a app to buy crypto for desktop & mobile that enables you to set up a Ledger device and manage your coins.
03
Add Bitcoin to your portfolio
Install Bitcoin on your Ledger Nano:
- Open Ledger Live and navigate to Manager.
- Connect and unlock your Ledger device.
- Search for Bitcoin in the app catalog and click Install.
- Head to Accounts
- Add Account
The best way to keep your Bitcoin coins secure
Secure multiple assets, including Bitcoin using a Ledger hardware wallet. Your private keys, giving access to your assets, remain safe in a certified secure chip.

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5/5In order to secure cryptocurrencies, Ledger is the perfect tool.
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