Demand for Self-Custody on the Rise
Unity Wallet, a self-custodial crypto and Web3 wallet has unveiled its Q3 2024 member insights. These insights shed light on emerging trends in self-custody adoption and user behavior across the global crypto landscape.
Telegram and TON Unveil Major Updates to Crypto Wallet With Self-Custodial Option
Telegram and The Open Network (TON) announced significant updates to Telegram's Wallet bot during The Gateway event held in Dubai
Ledger releases Segregated Witness support
Segwit, the long awaited pack of optimizations to scale Bitcoin has been activated on August 24th. This article explains how can you use Segwit benefits with Ledger’s hardware wallet products.
Blockchain wallet adding bitcoin buying option
Blockchain will soon provide users of their ever popular wallet with the option to buy bitcoin. After eight months of development, the service launches in the UK on Monday for a short period of testing. The company plans to push it out across the entire Eurozone by December, and across the US and some parts of Latin America early next year.
KeepKey and Shapeshift team up for dynamic and secure cryptocurrency trading
KeepKey and ShapeShift recently announced a partnership to create the first fully trustless, highly secure, process for trading cryptocurrencies. According to KeepKey, beta testing will begin next week.
OKWave and Breadwallet team up to leverage bitcoin use in Japan
OKWave is a popular Japanese question and answer social website, and no stranger to bitcoin, having integrated a bitcoin tipping feature to their Arigato platform last year. The company announced an alliance with San Francisco-based venture and bitcoin company Breadwallet LLC today, giving their website added functionality and a high-quality integrated solution for user bitcoin wallets.
Unocoin and MobiKwik partner to boost Bitcoin adoption across India with over 75,000 merchants
Indian Bitcoin heavyweight Unocoin, sometimes referred to as ‘the Coinbase of India’ due to offering similar services, announced an integration with leading mobile wallet in India, MobiKwik, on Thursday. The announcement followed news of their partnership with MobiKwik earlier this month to “let Unocoin users topup their MobiKwik wallets through bitcoin,” and is now live on the website.
The new Mycelium wallet is integrating fiat currencies, debit cards, personal finance, and more
Mycelium provides one of the oldest, most popular, and feature-rich bitcoin wallets on offer.The company's latest estimate is close to 200,000 active wallet users, with over 157,570 installs from Google Play, and about 150,000 more from alternative platforms in China. One thing that makes this dark-themed wallet stand out from the crowd is simplicity and security. Bitcoin private keys never leave the user's control, unlike popular competing apps from Coinbase and Circle.
Blockonomics introduces the next generation of Blockchain explorer
Blockonomics is multi-service bitcoin blockchain data aggregator, and the first to implement several useful applications, including an estimated confirmation time for bitcoin transactions. Simply browsing to a transaction, using a transaction ID number or public address, will allow users to quickly see an estimated time for one confirmed transactions.
Custos uses bitcoin to tackle piracy
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released its latest Theatrical Market Statistics Report, revealing that global box office revenues reached US$38.3b in 2015, up 5% on 2014. The United States and Canada generated US$11.1b, while international box office revenues hit US$27.2b.
Opendime disposable hardware wallets sold out in two days
Opendime has created a small, disposable, USB device that must be physically broken in order to spend any funds kept on it, creating a whole new niche for bitcoin wallets. The inexpensive tool can store any amount of bitcoin, with the option to add more over time.
HYPR brings biometrics to BitGo Bitcoin wallets
BitGo provides one of the most popular bitcoin wallets, having been integrated into exchanges and other bitcoin services including BitFinex, Bitstamp, Wirex (previously E-Coin), and Kraken.
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Jan Hubík is one of a small group of Bitcoin enthusiasts looking to stretch the boundaries of Bitcoin user technology with implants.
Ledger’s TEE trustlet for smartphone bitcoin wallets released
Ledger recently announced that its Android application, called the Ledger trustlet, is available for download. Trustlet users can create and import HD wallets, as well as send and receive transactions, all using a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE).
SatoshiPay launches, following VC investment and Incubator success
[SatoshiPay](https://satoshipay.io) is making a new widget for pay-as-you-go content payments, which allows website publishers to earn bitcoin by adding a lightweight paywall to content.
Privacy-focused bitcoin wallet, Samourai, integrates BIP 47, Reusable Payment Codes
Although the wallet is currently in alpha testing, Samourai already gives users fine grained control over privacy, with no address reuse, random change outputs, Tor and VPN support.
