WALLETS Now, you may be just fine simply leaving your coins on Coinbase. But I will share my view on wallets so you are at least aware of why they might be a very good thing to have. Wallets are like the spaceship interface, the navigation board, the command center for how to direct and move your cryptos around this invisible blockchain they run on. That’s all! And, if you have a simple wallet, it should be simple! As you may know, your coins have a public key and a private key, both of which you need if you are going to have full control over your coins. Exchanges will show you your public key, but not your private key. The main point of having your own wallet is to have access to your own private key for each coin. This is a long chain of numbers and letters, your private access to your coins on the blockchain. Nobody can take your coins IF only you have the private key with which to move them on the blockchain. Because exchanges don’t allow us to have this, I don’t...
