Are physical bitcoins safe?

Physical bitcoins — which can look like coins or bills, or can be any other item — are storage devices for private keys. In one way, storing private keys in physical media is extremely secure ; hackers can’t access the box under your bed via a virtual back door.

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Can you hold physical bitcoin?

Just the way we keep cash or cards in a physical wallet, bitcoins are also stored in a wallet—a digital wallet . The digital wallet can be hardware-based or web-based. The wallet can also reside on a mobile device, on a computer desktop, or kept safe by printing the private keys and addresses used for access on paper.

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How do physical bitcoins work?

Each coin has a unique Bitcoin address and a redeemable “private key” under a hologram on the coin. That key can be used to redeem the value of the Bitcoins online , but the hologram sticker leaves a honeycomb mark when peeled back, so you’ll know if your Bitcoins have been tampered with.

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