You need to prepare a ZCash wallet before you can begin using the Anycoin Direct platform. By using your ZCash wallet, you can store and send ZCash. In this article, you will get to know what a ZCash wallet is used for, what kinds of ZCash wallets are available, which ones we recommend and more.

A ZCash wallet can come in all kinds of shapes like physical appliances, software programs or services that contains your public and private keys and corresponds with the public ledger. You can compare your wallet's public key, which also functions as your "coin address", to your bank account number for ZCash, where anyone can track the transactions made, but no one knows they are yours. Your private key serves as the access code to your ZCash bank account, which can be seen as the public key, and used to transfer ZCash.

You have the possibility to choose from different kinds of ZCash wallets. The options differ from online wallets accessible through the web, to hardware wallets that are a bit more costly. On the picture below we have highlighted multiple wallet types and their attributes.