The miners need a special wallet of their own to
store ether tokens.
Not exact matches
Ethereum Classic also provides a value
token called «classic
ether», which can be transferred between participants,
stored in a cryptocurrency wallet and is used to compensate participant nodes for computations performed.
Just like the Coinbase example above, another option for
storing Ether is to keep your
tokens in your cryptocurrency exchange account.
Aside from being simply a
store of value and a medium of exchange, the digital protocol
token known as
Ether has the ability to execute smart contracts, or blocks of code designed to execute a wide spectrum of possible transactions.
Most ICOs work by having investors send funds (usually bitcoin or
ether) to a smart contract that
stores the funds and distributes an equivalent value in the new
token at a later point in time.
This makes investments safe as the investor not only gets a proof of the investment; instead, gets a smart contract
token, which can be
stored in any
Ether Wallet; can be bought, sold, or traded.
It is an open - source platform launched in 2015 by Kvhnuke and Tayvano, that not only
stores ether coins but also ERC20
tokens.
Most of its competitors are Bitcoin - focused or support different cryptocurrencies without a specific focus on ERC20
tokens: Xapo and Coinbase support Bitcoin; CoinsBank — Bitcoin and Litecoin; in Wirex you can send various cryptocurrencies to your account, but can only
store in Bitcoin; Uquid supports
Ether among many other cryptocurrencies.
The
ether tokens can not be
stored on some other cryptocurrency wallets such as Bitcoin.
When it comes to
storing ether (ETH)
tokens and other digital assets issued on the Ethereum platform, MyEtherWallet is a solution that is easy to use and offers a lot of flexibility.
According to Gatecoin, about 1.85 million
ether tokens and 250 bitcoins were stolen, which equals to $ 2.14 million at the current exchange rate and about 15 % of all cryptocurrency funds
stored on Gatecoin accounts.
The protocol
stores the
Ether and native DAO
tokens within its framework but «requires a «Contractor» to build a product, write code or develop hardware.»