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You can have different addresses in order to receive payments. Think of addresses as multiple postboxes around the outside of your house. Bitcoin allows accounts too. Each account owns a bunch of addresses. Taking our earlier analogy, you can imagine separate accounts as different houses. You (Bitcoin user) receive all the mail (balance shown in Bitcoin). Mail goes to a postbox (address) at one of your houses (accounts). | You can have different addresses in order to receive payments. Think of addresses as multiple postboxes around the outside of your house. Bitcoin allows accounts too. Each account owns a bunch of addresses. Taking our earlier analogy, you can imagine separate accounts as different houses. You (Bitcoin user) receive all the mail (balance shown in Bitcoin). Mail goes to a postbox (address) at one of your houses (accounts). | ||
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Introduction
You can have different addresses in order to receive payments. Think of addresses as multiple postboxes around the outside of your house. Bitcoin allows accounts too. Each account owns a bunch of addresses. Taking our earlier analogy, you can imagine separate accounts as different houses. You (Bitcoin user) receive all the mail (balance shown in Bitcoin). Mail goes to a postbox (address) at one of your houses (accounts).