Bitcoin Wallets

A Bitcoin wallet is not where your coins live — your coins live on the blockchain. The wallet holds the keys that prove they are yours. Different wallet types make different tradeoffs between convenience, security, and the threats they actually defend against.

In this section

• Software Wallets — desktop and mobile wallets and their tradeoffs
• Hardware Wallets — dedicated signing devices that keep keys offline
• Air-Gapped Wallets — wallets that never touch the internet
• Multisig Wallets — vaults that require multiple keys to spend

Pick the model that matches your threat model, not the one that looks coolest. The right wallet for $500 is rarely the right wallet for $50,000.