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Creating an Ethereum wallet

In this section, we will go through the details of creating an Ethereum wallet. There are a lot of wallet software packages available on the market. For illustration purposes, we will use MyCrypto, the free, open-source wallet for interfacing with the Ethereum network. The desktop version of MyCrypto allows you to create new wallets. You can download MyCrypto Desktop via https://download.mycrypto.com. The following are the steps to create a wallet:

Open MyCrypto.
Click on Create New Wallet in the left-hand side bar.
Navigate to Create New Wallet on the next page, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click on ...

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