***YOU DON'T HAVE CRYPTO IN YOUR WALLET***

Whether it’s a hardware wallet (the best), a software wallet (second best), or stored on an exchange or a trading platform (don’t!), your crypto never leaves the blockchain. Your access to your wallet simply gives you the right or ability to change the blockchain’s accounting - what you can and cannot control. The blockchain is a big spreadsheet, to put it simply.

First things first: Your wallet is tied to a unique address (your public address). You can think of your address as a key to your “locked safe” on the blockchain. That key gives you the authorization to open the safe and change the system of accounting on the blockchain. You can think of your public address like your email address, too.