Ledger hardware wallets hit by the FTX earthquake, CTO says
Some Ledger users weren’t able to process withdrawals using Ledger Live on Wednesday, according to social media reports. Hardware-based cryptocurrency wallet provider Ledger has experienced some issues due to massive outflows from crypto exchanges amid the FTX bloodbath, according to its chief technology officer.Ledger saw a “massive usage” of their platforms and suffered a “few scalability challenges” on Nov. 9, Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet reported in a statement on Twitter.Guillemet reasoned Ledger’s issues by the outcomes of the ongoing crisis of a major global cryptocurrency exchange,....
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The Ledger wallet is a new hardware Bitcoin wallet that has generated a lot of buzz in the Bitcoin community. Bitcoinist.net, in partnership with Ledger, will be giving away three Ledger wallets for free to our readers! Ledger is a France-based startup that provides an innovative new hardware wallet that allows Bitcoiners to safely store their coins. The wallets utilize Ledger OS, an “elegant and innovative design” that stores private keys in an “impenetrable zone” and signs transactions in a “secure environment.” Ledger believes that providing highly-secure ways to store Bitcoin is....
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The Bitcoinist.net Ledger Wallet giveaway has come to a close, and we have picked three winners to receive a Ledger Wallet! These winners will be able to use their Ledger wallets as a safe and reliable method of hardware Bitcoin storage. To ensure fairness in this giveaway, we used Random.org to arrange a randomized list that we used to pick our three winners. For the sake of privacy, we will not publish the winners’ names, but they will receive notification via email. Ledger operates out of France, and works to provide the Bitcoin industry with innovative hardware wallet technology that....
Ledger, a provider of hardware solutions which offers the Ledger Nano hardware wallet, recently posted a blog on Medium addressing the use of Segregated Witness for hardware wallets. Pieter Wuille, a bitcoin core developer, presented his Segregated Witness proposal at the Scaling Bitcoin in Hong Kong. Hardware wallets protect bitcoin keys to make sure bitcoin purchases are made to the right address and the right amount, the blog noted. In order to do this, they require certain information about the transaction. They have to know the destination address, the amount and how much money is....
Name: Ledger Blue. What it is: A handheld cryptocurrency hardware wallet device architected around a secure element, featuring a touchscreen and USB/NFC/BLE connectivity for PC and smartphone compatibility. It runs multiple apps such as bitcoin, ethereum, FIDO U2F, SSH, and GPG, and can be used with a number of digital currencies including bitcoin, dash, Zcash, litecoin and dogecoin. Who’s behind it: Ledger, a French startup that builds personal security devices for end users, hardware security modules for servers, and hardware oracles for the IoT. Cost: €229 + shipping. Date launched:....