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What is a cold wallet?

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A cold wallet keeps your crypto keys offline, away from the internet. It is often a small hardware device, but it can also be a seed phrase written on paper. Because hackers cannot reach a device that is not online, cold wallets are harder to steal from. The trade-off is that they take more steps to use.

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