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Wallet REST API: [REST-RPC-API](REST-RPC-API.md)
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## Notes on wallet system
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Bcoin maintains a wallet database which contains every wallet. Wallets are _not
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usable_ without also using a wallet database. For testing, the wallet database
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can be in-memory, but it must be there.
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Wallets in bcoin use bip44. They also originally supported bip45 for multisig,
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but support was removed to reduce code complexity, and also because bip45
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doesn't seem to add any benefit in practice.
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The wallet database can contain many different wallets, with many different
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accounts, with many different addresses for each account. Bcoin should
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theoretically be able to scale to hundreds of thousands of
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wallets/accounts/addresses.
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Each account can be of a different type. You could have a pubkeyhash account,
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as well as a multisig account, a witness pubkeyhash account, etc.
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Note that accounts should not be accessed directly from the public API. They do
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not have locks which can lead to race conditions during writes.
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