Okay, then that vacuous point is correct as well. A bank account is just a 9-ish digit number. So in that regard it's similar to a bitcoin wallet. What the

Okay, then that vacuous point is correct as well. A bank account is just a 9-ish digit number. So in that regard it's similar to a bitcoin wallet. What the person who started this convo was saying is that his friend thought the bitcoin wallet contained the bitcoins, in the exact same way that a regular wallet contains regular paper currency. That the bitcoin wallet would grow in file size based on the amount of bitcoin inside it. All pedantic misinterpretations aside, I'm pretty confident that's what he was trying to convey.