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What is Emerald Wallet?
Emerald Wallet is a non-custodial or self-custody cryptocurrency wallet. You can download it to your computer; either Windows, Mac, or Linux; and start using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ethereum Classic. ...
What Is a Non-custodial or Self-custody Wallet?
To own or control cryptocurrencies and assets inside blockchains they are all under public keys, also known as accounts or addresses. Each of those accounts are controlled by private keys. A private k...
What Is a Cryptocurrency?
A cryptocurrency is a new form of money invented by Satoshi Nakamoto when he published his Bitcoin white paper in October of 2008, and launched the Bitcoin blockchain network by releasing and running ...
What Cryptocurrencies Does Emerald Wallet Support?
Emerald supports the following cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin Ethereum Ethereum Classic In addition to the above blockchains, Emerald also support the following stablecoins inside Ethereum: USDT USD...
What Is the Difference Between a Wallet, a Blockchain, an Account, and an Address in Emerald Wallet?
On Emerald, you may have many wallets, each wallet may have many blockchains, and in each blockchain you may have many accounts, which are also called "addresses". What Is a Wallet? A wallet...
What Are Hardware Wallets and Software Wallets?
The concept of wallet types is a function of security vs convenience. Some wallet types are less convenient, but more secure. Others are more convenient, but less secure. Choosing between wallet types...
What Are Cold Wallets and Hot Wallets?
The definition of cold or hot wallets depends on where the private keys are located and if they have ever been used to sign and send transactions to the blockchain. What is a cold wallet? A "cold...
What Is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin was created by a Cypherpunk under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" and it is the first and largest blockchain. Bitcoin is a simple ledger with accounts and balances which accepts new...
What Is Ethereum?
Bitcoin is the first and largest blockchain, but it doesn't have smart contracts, which are decentralized software programs inside the network. This is why Vitalik Buterin, a brilliant programmer,...
What Is Ethereum Classic?
Ethereum Classic is the original Ethereum blockchain. Both blockchains were one until July of 2016 when the Ethereum community decided to fork and split from the original chain to reverse a hack that ...
What Is an ERC-20 Token?
An ERC-20 is a non-native cryptocurrency inside a programmable or smart contracts blockchain. Because in smart contracts or programmable blockchains people can create any types of software programmes ...
What Are Stablecoins?
A stablecoin cryptocurrency, or just stablecoin, is a non-native cryptocurrency or ERC-20 token inside a programmable or smart contracts blockchain that is pegged or associated to a national currency,...
How to Create a Wallet on Emerald Backed by Ledger Nano Model S or X
Start by downloading Emerald Wallet. Download it here and open it: https://emerald.cash/download The first thing you need to do is to set a global key or password for your Emerald Wallet. This is to...
How to Create a New Wallet on Emerald With a 24 Word Secret Phrase
Start by downloading Emerald Wallet. Download it here and open it: https://emerald.cash/download When you open Emerald for the first time, the first thing you need to do is to set a global key or pa...
How to Set Manually the Gas Fee When Sending Ethereum or ETC Using Emerald
Open Emerald and select the wallet you wish to send cryptocurrency from. Press the "SEND" button on the right. Select the cryptocurrency you wish to send. Deselect the "Standard Pric...
How to Change the Label of a Wallet
Open Emerald. See all wallets on the dashboard. Open the wallet you wish to change the label to. Where you see the name of the wallet, you will see a pencil icon to its right, click it. The form o...
How to Add More Ethereum Addresses to an Emerald Wallet
Open Emerald and select the wallet in which you wish to add a new Ethereum address. Open the sub-menu on the right of the name of the wallet. Select the option "Use Additional Addresses". ...
How to Restore Your Wallets From an Emerald Vault Backup File
First, download Emerald here and open it: https://emerald.cash/download You will see two options on your new install: "New setup" and "Restore from backup". Select "Restore ...
How to Back Up Your Wallets to an Emerald Vault Backup File
Open Emerald and see your wallets on the dashboard. Open the main menu on the top right of Emerald. Press on the "Settings" option. On the left menu, press on "EXPORT VAULT". N...
What Is a DAO?
DAOs are code on the blockchain that represent organizations of people to get together for different objectives. In the future DAOs may be recognized legally as legal persons of many types. The term &...
What Is an NFT?
The term NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token Standard. The smart contract standard of NFTs is the ERC-721. They are decentralized programmes on a programmable blockchain. Instead of being an ERC-20 sta...
What Is a Dapp?
What are apps? When you use your computer or phone and you use software programmes like Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, SnapChat, Excel, Word, or Gmail, those are what are called "applications"...