> How is a bitcoin address meaningfully different from an account?
Well, for one, it's only an address. Not a ledger.
Bitcoin transactions point money at one or more address. Transactions, you might argue, are one-off ledgers. But then bitcoin is just a collection of those transactions & relevant/necessary data to support them them, compiled & validated using a variety of mathematic calculations.
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> How is a bitcoin address meaningfully different from an account?
Well, for one, it's only an address. Not a ledger.
Bitcoin transactions point money at one or more address. Transactions, you might argue, are one-off ledgers. But then bitcoin is just a collection of those transactions & relevant/necessary data to support them them, compiled & validated using a variety of mathematic calculations.