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Re:Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More by driverdan on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @12:16PM (#8917976)
Wallet isn't something Coinbase came up with, it's a Bitcoin term. A wallet, or more specifically a wallet address, is an account number that's used to send and receive Bitcoins.
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Re:Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More by haakon on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @12:41PM (#8918148)
A wallet, in bitcoin terminology, is a keychain. It's a collection of private keys, each corresponding to a bitcoin address.
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Re:Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More by presty on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @12:27PM (#8918038)
no one claimed that Coinbase came up with btc wallets.

but usd wallets are definitely something novel (bitstamp also allows you to hold usd, but not for the use cases that coinbase is enabling)

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