Section
Wallets
3 articles
Custody, keys and recovery — what a wallet genuinely controls, and what it only displays. These pieces avoid step-by-step setup guides, which are stale the week an interface changes, in favour of the model underneath: how a seed phrase differs from a password, what a hardware device actually moves out of reach, and which mistakes can be undone. Wallets are the second sector the AI Citation Index measures, and the questions people put to assistants about them are the questions this section tries to answer properly.
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What a MetaMask recovery phrase actually controls
It is not a password, and it does not back up everything you can see in the extension. What it covers, what it misses, and what to do if it leaks.
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Seed phrases, private keys and passwords are not the same
Three different things, routinely treated as one. The confusion is not academic — it is how people lose funds they believed were protected.
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Hot wallet, cold wallet, and the line between them
A hardware wallet does not hide your key better. It moves the signing off a connected computer — which defeats one attack completely and another not at all.