Client Side Secured Browser Wallets
Client side browser wallets almost exactly resemble managed online wallets in terms of how they appear to the user, but the key difference is how they work behind the scenes. Encrypted backups of the wallet are stored securely by the provider, but the provider has no way of decrypting them - the encryption and decryption is done within your browser with....
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Carbon Wallet, a new service seeking to be the next great innovation in secure online wallets, is launching today. Currently, there are two major types of online wallet: server-side controlled wallets and client-side controlled wallets. In a server-side wallet (eg. Coinbase), the actual wallet is controlled by a server which independently maintains all of its' users like a bank account, and in a client-side wallet there is an actual fully-functional Bitcoin wallet operating inside the user's browser, and the server only holds encrypted backups of each user's wallet - to which only the user....
The growth of Bitcoin over the past four years, together with the recent storm of political revelations on the part of organizations like Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, has brought a renewed interest into developing and promoting the mass adoption of consumer-grade cryptographic technologies. Bitcoin was arguably the first of the trend, giving the user full control over their funds with no trusted third parties whatsoever, and encryption and decryption done on the client side. Since then, we have seen encrypted email replacements like BitMessage, blockchain-based identity systems like....
Emile Dubié, CEO of XDEFI, is building a new browser wallet with Web 3 capabilities. XDEFI currently has nine blockchain integrations. Due to the enormous growth of DeFi and a lack of direct competitors, Ethereum wallet and browser extension MetaMask recently surpassed 10 million active users, a major milestone for the ConsenSys-led protocol. Now, a new browser wallet is looking to provide an alternative to MetaMask by doing something that most developers are shying away from — creating a web-based experience as opposed to a mobile client. Emile Dubié, the CEO of XDEFI Wallet, explained to....
In this episode of "The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado," the hosts discussed compact client-side filtering, also known as Neutrino. The post Discussing Compact Client Side Filtering (Neutrino) appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
A new platform capable of transferring almost anything over bitcoin's block chain is aiming to innovate on competing '2.0' offerings from ChromaWallet, CoinPrism, Counterparty and MasterCoin. CoinSpark, the first software tool available from Coin Sciences, seeks to provide an easy way for users to create and distribute digital assets. The platform generates asset web pages and enforceable legal contracts for users automatically. Next, all units of the asset are sent to a lightweight wallet for Linux, Mac and Windows, which lives on the issuer's computer, not a hosted web wallet. The end....