<p>No, there isn't.  Bitcoin has no central management of anything at all.  </p>

<p>Public keys are pseudonymous and in general it may not be possible to identify the user to whom a public key belongs.  A private key is kept by the user who generated it, and typically is never revealed to anybody else.</p>

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Nate Eldredge
<p>Is there any entity in the blockchain that maintains record and manages public/private key pairs of all the users?</p>

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related: [At what point is a new wallet known by the Bitcoin network?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/13225/5406)
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Is there any central management of public and private key pairs in blockchain?
Imran Makhdoom
# Is there any central management of public and private key pairs in blockchain?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-17)

Is there any entity in the blockchain that maintains record and manages public/private key pairs of all the users?

**Tags:** address, traceability, governance, identity

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> **username_1**: related: [At what point is a new wallet known by the Bitcoin network?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/13225/5406)  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-03-17. Score: 4

No, there isn't. Bitcoin has no central management of anything at all.

Public keys are pseudonymous and in general it may not be possible to identify the user to whom a public key belongs. A private key is kept by the user who generated it, and typically is never revealed to anybody else.


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