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Square SSP Academy cover: verifying a wallet download

Verifying a wallet download: checksums, signatures and reproducible builds

Checksums prove you have the same file, signatures prove who published it, and reproducible builds prove it came from the published code. What each one shows, and step by step how to verify an SSP Wallet release.

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Crypto in a household: shared funds, separate keys and what happens if

Couples, parents and families can self-custody together — if they decide who holds what. Three questions to answer first, common household setups, planning for absences, holding for children, and where SSP fits.

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Crypto loans and liquidation: borrowing against coins you don't want to sell

Crypto loans let you borrow without selling, but your collateral can be sold for you. How over-collateralised loans and liquidation work, why liquidations cascade, DeFi vs centralised lenders, and how to borrow more safely.

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Testing your backup: how to know your recovery phrase actually works

A backup you've never tested is a hope, not a plan. How backups fail, three safe ways to test a recovery phrase, how often to check, and how SSP Wallet and SSP Key build backup checks in.

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Oracles: how blockchains learn what's happening outside

Smart contracts can't look anything up, so oracles bring prices and events on-chain — and every protocol inherits their weaknesses. How oracles work, how price feeds get manipulated, and what to check before you trust one.

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Hard forks and soft forks: how blockchains change their rules

Blockchains upgrade without a central server, through soft forks that tighten the rules and hard forks that change them. How each works, when forks split a coin in two, and what upgrades mean for your wallet.

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Hijacked accounts: when a trusted voice posts a scam

Scammers take over trusted social accounts to post fake airdrops, migrations and security alerts. How takeovers happen, what the scam posts look like, how to spot them, and how account owners can protect themselves.

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A treasury policy for small teams: who can move the money

A crypto treasury held by one person is one mistake away from a loss. Five questions every team's treasury policy should answer, a starting template, and how SSP Enterprise maps to each of them.

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Keeping records of your crypto: what to save and how

In self-custody your records are yours to keep. What to record for each transaction, a simple routine for exchanges and wallets, verifying with the blockchain, exporting from SSP, and keeping records safe.

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Front-end hijacks: when the real website turns against you

A dApp's contracts can be safe while its website is hijacked through DNS, hosting or a compromised dependency. How front-end attacks work, what they ask you to sign, and why your wallet's request screen is the real defence.

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Halvings and supply schedules: where new coins come from

Every proof-of-work coin decides in its rules how new coins are created. How Bitcoin's halving works, how Litecoin, Dogecoin, Kaspa and Ethereum differ, and what halvings do and don't mean for holders.

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The Lightning Network: Bitcoin payments without waiting for blocks

Lightning makes Bitcoin payments fast and cheap by moving them into two-party channels built on multisig and time locks. How channels and routing work, where Lightning shines, and the trade-offs it asks of you.

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Fake job offers: when the interview is the attack

Fake recruiters lure crypto workers into running a coding test or installing a meeting app that steals wallets and passwords. How the scheme works, where the payload hides, the red flags, and how to protect yourself.

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Security audits: what an audit report actually tells you

"Audited" is one of crypto's most common badges and one of its most misread. How to read an audit report — scope, date, version, severities and fixes — what audits can't tell you, and the red flags in audit claims.

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Paper wallets: why the old way of cold storage aged badly

Printing a private key on paper was once the gold standard of cold storage. Why web generation, printers, single addresses and change handling made paper wallets riskier than they looked, and how to safely sweep an old one.

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Nonces: why Ethereum transactions wait in line

Every Ethereum transaction carries a nonce, and the network processes them strictly in order. What the nonce does, why one stuck transaction blocks the rest, how to speed up or cancel, and how smart accounts and other chains handle it.

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Password managers and crypto: what to store, and what never to

Password managers make almost every account safer. Which crypto secrets belong in one — exchange logins, wallet unlock passwords — and why recovery phrases and private keys should stay offline and, for multisig, apart.

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Crypto ETFs vs holding the coins: what you actually own

Spot bitcoin and ether ETFs make crypto exposure as easy as buying a share. What an ETF share actually is, how it differs from holding the coins yourself — ownership, control, hours, costs, protections — and which fits what.

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Square SSP Academy cover: NFT ownership and approvals

NFTs: what you actually own, and the one approval that empties collections

An NFT is a record in a contract pointing to content stored elsewhere. What you really own, questions to ask before buying, and why setApprovalForAll is behind most NFT theft.

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Time locks: coins that can't move until a certain moment

Time locks let the chain enforce when coins can move, not just who can move them. Absolute and relative locks, how Bitcoin and smart-contract chains implement them, what they're good for, and their trade-offs.

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