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Your Bitcoin is stored as an unspent transaction output (UTXO) in a globally distributed ledger (i.e. a database). But for most people the private key that would allow them to spend that Bitcoin is not actually in their possession - it's owned by Coinbase for example, who are acting as a bank and keep yet another database to store who owns what.



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