Before you can start your cryptocurrency journey, you are required to have created and set up your personal PIVX wallet. A PIVX wallet can be used to keep and send PIVX. Throughout this article, we will tell you the purpose of a PIVX wallet, the different types of PIVX wallets, the PIVX wallets we recommend and how you can use your PIVX wallet to buy or sell PIVX on the Anycoin Direct platform.

A PIVX wallet is a physical device, software program or service that stores your public and private keys and interacts with the blockchain. The public key that your wallet contains, which also gives you a wallet address, can be compared to your PIVX bank number. You can access the balance on your public key through your wallet's private key, which is used to approve transactions in the ledger.

There is a wide variety of different PIVX wallets on the market you can use. These differ from digital wallets that you can access through the web to highly secured hardware wallets. On the image below you can find the most popular wallets and their characteristics.