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The user holds their own keys, and there are multiple full nodes that our apps connect to, which themselves are connected directly to the Bitshares "Witness" nodes. If you are extra geeky I encourage you to check out the open source for yourself on my github page (for the wallet, see the smartcoins-wallet and graphenej repos specifically):
https://github.com/kenCode-de?tab=repositories

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