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summary: 'one of the two pairs of private and public cryptographic keys that each account has, with the *private* spend key used to spend any funds in the account'
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terms: ["spend-key", "spend-keys"]
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{% include disclaimer.html translated="no" translationOutdated="no" %}
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### The Basics
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One of the two pairs of private and public cryptographic keys that each
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account has, with the *private* spend key used to spend any funds in the
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account.
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### In-depth Information
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The *private* spend key is a 256-bit integer that is used to sign Monero
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transactions. With the current deterministic key derivation method of the
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official wallet, the private spend key is also an alternate representation
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of the @mnemonic-seed. It can be used to derive all other account keys.
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