The difference between private key and a public key

[Mandoy01 1196]

If we talk about wallets then we will also talk about the wallet keys. There are two kinds of wallet keys; the private key and the public key.

 

The public key is also known as your wallet address. This is the alpha numeric number which you give to someone in order to receive a certain coin or token. The word public means that you can share it so you can make transactions.

 

Next is the private keys. Private keys are like the keys you use to open your door. For example you are going to unlock your door and you need a key to open it. It is the same with your private keys, this is the key that you will use to unlock or access your wallet. The word private here means that this key needs to be kept by you and never be shared otherwise other people can access your wallet.

 

So always keep in mind the difference so that your wallet will be safe and your coin or token will not be taken away from you. Share only your public key (wallet address) and not your private key.

[Ummita 303]

We should always make our private keys secure and should only be know by us only. It private anyway and needs to be well secure. 

[pkrs 603]

I think everyone in Crypto should know this. If anybody ask your key then unfortunately if you give the private key then you will have to lose all you money and public key is given to receive or send Cryptocurrencies.

[bean 515]

Public key is the address to the wallet that you put out there to receive funds to your account, your private keys is what you use to access your wallet on the blockchain it should be kept in a secure place at all times.

[Migo 7946]

Thanks for this explanation, but both of them are important to the wallet, because I think you will be hacked if you lost them or someone stole them from you, they are the key to your wallet, and the key to recover your wallet if you lost password or something else 

[phpMailz 568]

Private keys are the keys that unlock your wallet, they must be kept is a secure location cause if loss or stolen you will lose all access to your wallet and public keys are addresses that identify your wallet people can use it to send money to you.

[Jokeer 648]

Thank you for sharing about this information. It's really helpful. I was a little bit confused about the private key and a public key but from your post, I know about it properly.

[Satishmolankar 1703]

Thanks for giving this information that I was not knowing best post but do it regularly that every one should learn new new things in the crypto world and I also know there are many that have to know more 

[Amirul Islam 382]

On 1/26/2020 at 9:14 PM, Mandoy01 said:

If we talk about wallets then we will also talk about the wallet keys. There are two kinds of wallet keys; the private key and the public key.

 

The public key is also known as your wallet address. This is the alpha numeric number which you give to someone in order to receive a certain coin or token. The word public means that you can share it so you can make transactions.

 

Next is the private keys. Private keys are like the keys you use to open your door. For example you are going to unlock your door and you need a key to open it. It is the same with your private keys, this is the key that you will use to unlock or access your wallet. The word private here means that this key needs to be kept by you and never be shared otherwise other people can access your wallet.

 

So always keep in mind the difference so that your wallet will be safe and your coin or token will not be taken away from you. Share only your public key (wallet address) and not your private key.

On my opinion is that private key is your wallet access key. We need always keep it safe. And public key is your wallet address. You will receive crypto through your public key.

[gigabyteRTX 1583]

Well the simple private key is a type of key or security code or password that tend to be private and cant is easily accessed or more like strict than the public keys, and yes public keys are more like a path or address and the private key is the key to open a certain path.

[tienda 8776]

First of all thank you for your information about the difference between private key and a public key this is very sure that will help many members here to understand more about, but both are important both need to be protected.

[Jesoy 1342]

Now the terms were more confusing. It really suggest that we should always be careful and let our private keys safe. This information is really important especially there are many sites asking keys.

[Mcd0d0 5882]

thanks for this mate it was a informative and ideal post of yours, i hope that every. beginners on this forum will understand all of this and someday it will make a way to analyze what is the difference between private to public keys it's important to know all of this thing..

[Afrizal rahman 2636]

The difference between private and public keys is clearly very different. The private key is only known by us and it is private and the public key is the key that is known by people because it is overall.

[Saira 1077]

On 1/26/2020 at 10:23 PM, Ummita said:

We should always make our private keys secure and should only be know by us only. It private anyway and needs to be well secure. 

I agree to you post. I'm new at this forum so I don't know about this. But thanks your post is meant full to me and I learned this. 

[TasinHasan 421]

public key means the key you can carry normally.

no privacy need on the key and you can easily share with others.

bit private key only private.

if someone found your private key then he cam stolen all money of yours

[Unknown user 256]

On 1/26/2020 at 8:14 PM, Mandoy01 said:

If we talk about wallets then we will also talk about the wallet keys. There are two kinds of wallet keys; the private key and the public key.

 

The public key is also known as your wallet address. This is the alpha numeric number which you give to someone in order to receive a certain coin or token. The word public means that you can share it so you can make transactions.

 

Next is the private keys. Private keys are like the keys you use to open your door. For example you are going to unlock your door and you need a key to open it. It is the same with your private keys, this is the key that you will use to unlock or access your wallet. The word private here means that this key needs to be kept by you and never be shared otherwise other people can access your wallet.

 

So always keep in mind the difference so that your wallet will be safe and your coin or token will not be taken away from you. Share only your public key (wallet address) and not your private key.

I don't know it the us for making this good good the public wallet is not safe and the provide wallet is safe.

[Ali abbas 15]

The private key is what you used to access your wallet and public key is used for receiving money 

[Zerocrisis 266]

It is clear to me that i need my private key to access my public key, i'm using an exchanger to store my satoshis and this platform asks me to create a two factor authentication or 2fa my question is, is the 2fa a kind of master key or what is its function?

[Mehnil125 431]

The main difference between the private and the public key is very simple the private key is a private account and the public key is for all the people. 

[Atique 512]

What is public is a key that others can see and use to share coins with us. But what is private is a key that only you are aware of. If others know that you will lose your coins.

[Honny143 13612]

I think private key and public key are both importent to our account Thanks bro post for the intresting and knowledge information to us  now public key we use any website to access your account and private key we operate our main account to send are receive coins when we loss private key are password  we never access our account and we loss all our coins where we store in wallet like this 4 million bitcoin loss this method and never recover this coins so think how important this keys so we store in secure place

[miskyming 1588]

well the difference between the public key and the private key.. the public key is you can open your account, but you can not send funds.. the private key is you can open your account and you can also send funds.. but make sure no one can knows your private key so that no one can hack your account.

[Ankit Nepal 719]

On 1/26/2020 at 8:59 PM, Mandoy01 said:

If we talk about wallets then we will also talk about the wallet keys. There are two kinds of wallet keys; the private key and the public key.

 

The public key is also known as your wallet address. This is the alpha numeric number which you give to someone in order to receive a certain coin or token. The word public means that you can share it so you can make transactions.

 

Next is the private keys. Private keys are like the keys you use to open your door. For example you are going to unlock your door and you need a key to open it. It is the same with your private keys, this is the key that you will use to unlock or access your wallet. The word private here means that this key needs to be kept by you and never be shared otherwise other people can access your wallet.

 

So always keep in mind the difference so that your wallet will be safe and your coin or token will not be taken away from you. Share only your public key (wallet address) and not your private key.

private key is like your email password. It’s a set of letters and numbers unique to an investor’s own crypto wallet that allows the investor to send digital currency from that wallet. Just like your email password, the private key needs to be kept absolutely secret at all times or you will likely lose all of the wealth in your crypto wallet.A public key is a derivation of a private key, which can be traced back to a private key but can’t be used to decode it.

[Maaz sultan 265]

I suggest all the users to avoid to share any friend and dont trust on any unknown user that is taking your wallet private key i think that sharing your public key is not a problem .