Kryptokit Launches as Dark Wallet's Biggest Rival
As secure client-side bitcoin wallet Dark Wallet looks set to reach its funding goal, a competitor has emerged - and is already shipping. Kryptokit, a wallet designed for secure bitcoin payments and messaging, launched today at the Inside Bitcoins conference in Las Vegas as an extension for the Chrome browser. This, coincidentally, was one of Dark Wallet's main goals. The product, which is a reworked version of now-defunct project Rushwallet, features two tabs: a bitcoin wallet and a secure messaging system. Launched by Anthony Di Iorio, CEO of Canada's Bitcoin Alliance, the wallet can....
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Earlier this month, Anthony Di Iorio, chief digital officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange, CEO and founder of Kryptokit and Decentral, and co-founder of Ethereum, announced the beta launch ofJaxx, a unified platform which provides wallet services for both Bitcoin and Ethereum users. Jaxx wallets consist of a hierarchical deterministic Bitcoin wallet and a lightweight Ethereum wallet being developed by Kyptokit, a Bitcoin group entrusted with securing more than 500,000 Bitcoin wallets installed on their Chrome extension and Rushwallet products. Since its establishment in 2013, Kryptokit has....
Kryptokit, a browser extension that functions as a bitcoin wallet and encrypted messenger, has launched Jaxx, a unified platform that provides wallet services for bitcoin and Ethereum users, according to Nasdaq. Anthony Di Iorio, chief digital officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange, founder of Decentral and co-founder of Ethereum, announced in a Reddit posting the launch of the third Jaxx release. He said the first-ever wallet for Firefox is available as a direct download for Firefox browsers at jaxx.io Due to restrictions of the current build of Firefox, users will need to be running the....
A crowdfunding page has been launched for the anarchic Dark Wallet project. Described on the indiegogo crowdfunding page as a "light browser wallet relying on an independent bitcoin implementation with out-of-the-box security and privacy features", Dark Wallet is scheduled for release in early 2014. The campaign launched yesterday (31st October) and has already reached over 40% of its goal to raise $50,000 for the development of Dark Wallet. Those involved in the project include Amir Taaki, developer of Libbitcoin. Mihai Alisie, editor in chief at Bitcoin Magazine; and Cody Wilson, who is....
Google has managed to identify and fix a problem that started plaguing users of the bitcoin wallet extension KryptoKit yesterday and caused many to worry that their bitcoins might be irretrievably lost. Early on 20th May, KryptoKit users started reporting that the extension was mysteriously removing itself from Chrome without prior notice. They also found that the extension had disappeared from the Chrome app store. KryptoKit project developers tried their best to work out a solution, but it soon became apparent that Google itself was behind the abrupt removal. Malware alert. Google....
The Kryptokit team conducted an intensive security audit before releasing Jaxx to the public. The Jaxx wallet solution has attracted a lot of attention from both Bitcoin and Ethereum community members. It is not often these hybrid wallets are available to holders of two top cryptocurrencies, and the Kryptokit team has brought Jaxx to all platforms. What makes the Jaxx wallet so unique is how users can store both Bitcoin and Ethereum in one and the same wallet. Albeit there are multiple wallet apps and plugins available for either cryptocurrency, it is a good thing to see some companies....