# account

By [me](https://paragraph.com/@me-2) · 2022-08-24

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An address is an account that contains your funds. A private key is used to spend the funds in that account. A wallet is a safe that contains your private keys. A seed phrase is the master key to that safe. None of this is intuitive.

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*Originally published on [me](https://paragraph.com/@me-2/account)*