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Bitcoin

What is Bitcoin, in plain language?

Bitcoin is software that keeps a shared record of who can spend which coins — without a bank in the middle. Here is the mechanism, the limits, and the ways a headline turns that into something it is not.EasyCryptoGuides · 4 Aug 2026 · 6 min read

Crypto Basics

What is a cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency is an entry on a public ledger that you can move if you hold the matching keys. That one sentence explains most of the wonder and most of the ways people get hurt.EasyCryptoGuides · 1 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

Wallets

How crypto wallets actually work

If you remember one idea, make it this: the network holds the coins. Your wallet holds the keys. That distinction explains most of the fear, the scams, and the recovery phrases.EasyCryptoGuides · 3 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

Exchanges

How buying crypto actually works

Buying cryptocurrency is usually buying from a company, then optionally taking the keys. Confusing those two steps is how people think they “own Bitcoin” when they own a balance in an app.EasyCryptoGuides · 14 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

Wallets

What is a Bitcoin wallet?

The 2019 page compared a wallet to email. That metaphor teaches the wrong lesson. Here is the version we still stand behind.EasyCryptoGuides · 13 Feb 2019 · 4 min read

Security

What is cold storage?

Cold storage means the signing keys stay offline. It is a practice, not a product name, and it does not forgive a bad backup.EasyCryptoGuides · 6 Mar 2019 · 3 min read

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• BitcoinA scarce digital asset on a public ledger, with rules no single company can rewrite on a whim.

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• Bitcoin and Ethereum in plain languageSame family of idea, different jobs. A price candle does not tell you which.

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Security

Ledger devices from one reseller had an extra part. The chip was not the hole.

Buyers from a Southeast Asian reseller were told not to set unused devices up. Researcher estimates of the loss run from the tens of millions into the mid-nineties. Ledger has not confirmed a total. The Secure Element was not the clipboard.EasyCryptoGuides · 9 Oct 2026, 16:00 UTC · 4 min read

Regulation

The CFTC asked questions about a crypto exchange licence. Questions are not the licence.

On 5 October 2026 the CFTC published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM. The Federal Register printed it on 13 October. Comments run to 14 December. There is no rule text in force.EasyCryptoGuides · 5 Oct 2026, 18:00 UTC · 3 min read

Regulation

FinCEN withdrew two wallet proposals that had never taken effect.

On 5 October 2026 FinCEN withdrew the December 2020 unhosted-wallet proposal and the October 2023 plan to treat crypto mixing as a primary money-laundering concern. Both withdrawals took effect on 6 October. Neither draft had ever been in force.EasyCryptoGuides · 5 Oct 2026, 14:00 UTC · 3 min read

Related reviews

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Modern software wallet (category)

★★★★☆ Score 3.8 of 5. 3.8Fine for small balances and learning, if you practise recovery and treat every signature as real. Not a substitute for a hardware device once the number would ruin your month.EasyCryptoGuides · 6 Aug 2026

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Major centralised exchange (category)

★★★★☆ Score 3.5 of 5. 3.5A reasonable on-ramp if you use withdrawals, enable real two-factor authentication, and never store more than you are willing to treat as a balance at a private company. The marketing is louder than the account agreement.EasyCryptoGuides · 4 Aug 2026

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Blockchain.com

★★★☆☆ Score 3.3 of 5. 3.3The explorer is a public lookup tool. The wallet and exchange are company products. Use the name carefully, enable real two-factor authentication, and do not treat a web login as cold storage.EasyCryptoGuides · 23 Apr 2020