Armory and the monetization of bitcoin wallets
A group of prominent investors recently made a play in the bitcoin wallet space by backing startup Armory Technologies, Inc. The $600,000 seed round investment will go mostly towards funding and expanding development. Interestingly, this placement brings into focus a much larger issue: the monetization of bitcoin wallets. It's no mistake that Armory founder and CEO Alan Reiner told CoinDesk: "This first 12 months is more about developing a quality product than it is figuring out how to monetize it." An effective wallet monetization strategy doesn't exist yet. Even lead investor Trace Mayer....
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Armory has thrown is support behind Segregated Witness (SegWit) as a way to address the bitcoin network scalability challenge, the wallet noted on a Github post. The Armory opposes hard forks that can attack the original bitcoin blockchain. Armory would consider supporting a long-lasting fork that does not attack the original chain and allow its users to transact on that chain if necessary. Depending on the extent of the changes, Armory could deploy the change completely and implement a migration tool to another wallet supporting the change. It could also choose not to support the fork.....
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One of the few wallet offering advanced security features has made its official appearance into the official "unstable" repository of the popular Linux distribution Debian. What is Armory? First, let's quote the great introduction wrote by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin when he reviewed the wallet two years ago: "Armory is the most advanced and secure Bitcoin client available and has been developed by Alan Reiner who is one of the world's premier experts in Bitcoin security. If your use case requires safely storing large value in bitcoins, then Armory is the only practical choice. Armory....