Category: Wallets

Wallets with less than 1 BTC account for just 5% of Bitcoin’s market cap

With the number of “wholecoiner” Bitcoin wallets holding at least 1 BTC increasing every year, the remaining addresses represent just 5% of Bitcoin’s market cap.

November 26, 2020
BTC dumps as Coinbase CEO mentions US regulations for crypto wallets

Veterans will say it’s the same story in a different dress. Bitcoin has, historically, been met by regulatory “FUD” or the prospects of a ban whenever the asset’s prices go parabolic. This was last seen in 2017 when China said it would “ban Bitcoin,” causing a near 30% drop in prices then. A similar pattern…

November 26, 2020
Multisig Coordination Software Nunchuk Releases Its Code

Recently-launched Bitcoin wallet Nunchuk announced today that it is making its application library, libnunchuk, open source and available to the public. Nunchuk describes its mission as “the proliferation of multisig” and attempts to make multisig wallet security easier to achieve by offering a product that integrates some of the latest developments around partially-signed bitcoin transactions…

November 13, 2020
Multisignature Wallets Can Keep Your Coins Safer (If You Use Them Right)

Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets which require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction.

November 10, 2020
‘Convincing’ Phishing Attack Targets Ledger Hardware Wallet Users

Ledger confirmed that for the last week some customers have been the target of a phishing attack.

October 27, 2020
Luno Exchange Launches Interest-Earning Bitcoin Wallet

Users of Luno’s new bitcoin “savings wallet” can earn up to 4% interest per year, the exchange said.

October 19, 2020
Despite Legal Turmoil, BitMEX Research Shows Us How Not To Use Brain Wallets

This article originally appeared in our Down The Rabbit Hole newsletter. If you want our news and analysis straight to your inbox, make sure you subscribe now! BitMEX has been dominating the cryptocurrency news cycle lately, for reasons that it would rather avoid. On October 1, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged the exchange…

October 14, 2020
Hong Kong Crypto Exchange Launches Hardware Wallet With Fingerprint Recognition

The Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Gate.io has launched a new type of hardware wallet that features fingerprint recognition. The device supports over 10,000 cryptocurrencies with wallet.io and multi-signature functionality with over 40 public chains. The well known cryptocurrency exchange, Gate.io, has announced the launch of the S1 hardware wallet that supports multi-signature functionality and a…

October 14, 2020
BlueWallet Adds Privacy Feature ‘PayJoin’ for Bitcoin Transactions

Mobile and desktop Bitcoin and Lightning wallet BlueWallet has added support for BIP 78 with its PayJoin feature.

October 7, 2020
Cryptowisser: 75 Crypto Exchanges Dead in 2020 – More Will Follow

5th October 2020, leading Crypto service comparison site – Cryptowisser, announces its Crypto exchange graveyard. The detailed page lists and explains the many crypto exchanges (largely centralized exchanges) that have disappeared, expired or collapsed this year, giving an insight into the volatile and competitive crypto exchange industry. There was a 56% increase of dead crypto…

October 4, 2020