Category: Wallets

  • UK Watchdog Eyes Extension of Money Laundering Risk Reporting to Crypto Firms

    The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking to oblige more firms, including some working with cryptocurrency, to report how they manage the risks of financial crime.

  • Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: Okex Crypto Exchange Suffers $5.6 Million Loss, Contemplates Delisting ETC

    Ethereum Classic 51% Attack: Okex Crypto Exchange Suffers $5.6 Million Loss, Contemplates Delisting ETC

    Cryptocurrency exchange Okex reveals it suffered the $5.6 million loss as a result of the double-spend carried out by the attacker(s) in Ethereum Classic 51% attack. Okex says it fully absorbed the loss as per its user-protection policy while insisting that the attack did not cause any loss to the platform’s users. Also as part…

  • Casa Launches In-Wallet Purchasing

    Bitcoin custody solution provider Casa has announced today that it is offering in-wallet bitcoin purchases, allowing Casa App users to forgo exchanges when they add to their HODLings.  In a release shared with Bitcoin Magazine, Casa explained that users can make these purchases using Apple Pay or debit cards, which connect them to retail exchanges…

  • Foundation Devices Enters The Sovereign Hardware Game With Passport Bitcoin Wallet

    A new hardware provider is entering the Bitcoin fray with the launch of a cold storage wallet and some ambitious plans to serve Bitcoiners with a full stack of sovereignty tools. The Boston-based Foundation Devices announced today its new Passport hardware wallet, an air-gapped device that sports a camera for scanning QR codes, a physical…

  • Video: How to Create a Multisig Wallet With Caravan By Unchained Capital

    Bitcoin multisig wallets can enable more secure custody of your bitcoin, adding redundancy and avoiding a single point of failure in the number of keys necessary to authorize a spend. One new tool for utilizing multisig is Caravan from Unchained Capital. With Caravan, Unchained Capital has created a free and open-source tool allowing you to…

  • Lastbit’s Wallet Hopes to Make Spending Bitcoin Simple One Day

    Lastbit’s Wallet Hopes to Make Spending Bitcoin Simple One Day

    Lastbit, a Berkeley-based startup, has announced the beta launch of their Bitcoin and Lightning-enabled wallet. The company claims that their new solution is meant to address three critical problems preventing Bitcoin’s mass adoption:  price volatility, slow transactions, and technical complexities. Their solution for all of those problems seems simple:  allow the merchants to be paid…

  • Emphasizing User Friendliness With Sovereignty, Casa Launches Free Wallet

    Today, Bitcoin custody solution provider Casa has launched a free wallet service aimed at new users. This app provides a retooled version of the basic wallet it offers its members, designed to be simple to use but without all of the premium services included in Casa’s more advanced products. “We’re excited about launching a free…

  • Bitamp launches open-source Bitcoin wallet

    Bitamp launches open-source Bitcoin wallet

    Bitamp, an easy to use client-side open-source Bitcoin wallet, has recently launched its flagship product, a wallet that can send and receive BTC from anywhere, on any device. One can log in with their seed and private key or create a new wallet by recording a 12-word seed on the Company’s website. BitAmp’s Technology Bitamp…

  • XRP users can now fully delete crypto wallets, thanks to new Ripple update

    In a first for the cryptocurrency market, a community-consensus for Ripple last week approved an amendment to the XRP ledger, allowing users to delete existing wallets. Community requests met Voted over two weeks with an 80 percent majority, the “ DeletableAccounts Amendment” allows XRP wallet users to remove old, inactive accounts while recovering “reserve” funds.…

  • Bitcoin.com Wallet Users Can Now Purchase More Than $10K Worth of Cryptocurrency

    Bitcoin.com Wallet Users Can Now Purchase More Than $10K Worth of Cryptocurrency

    During the end of March, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the newly updated Bitcoin.com Wallet that features a number of new services like digital currency price tracking. The lightning-fast, noncustodial wallet allows people to store BTC and BCH, but also provides people with the ability to purchase crypto assets. This week, Bitcoin.com Wallet users will be pleased…