How One Company Simplified the Wallet Address
There is a new wallet that has surfaced recently that allows users to send Bitcoin and many other digital currencies by using a web address. This new service, bitcoinwallet.com, gives users the ability to personalize their payment address in a manner similar to a Tumblr or hosted web address. The Bitcoin Wallet platform makes sending and receiving....
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Users can get a username through Coinbase Wallet’s browser extension and use it to send and receive crypto tokens instead of the traditional address. As simplified wallet addresses become more popular within the blockchain space, crypto exchange Coinbase integrated with Ethereum Name Service (ENS) to give their customers usernames to replace their traditional Coinbase crypto wallet addresses. In a post, the exchange announced that it will be handing out free “name.cb.id” usernames. Through Coinbase Wallet’s browser extension, people can claim their new address and use it for their....
As more exchanges start to support the simplified address format, will error-prone text-string addresses become a thing of the past? Global cryptocurrency exchange OKEx announced Feb. 9 that it has integrated support for blockchain-based addresses from Unstoppable Domains into its customer wallets.This means that rather than needing to provide individual wallet addresses for each token type, users can send and receive any of the many currencies supported by both OKEx and Unstoppable Domains via a single .crypto or .zil domain name.In practice, this functionality was already available for....
Whenever a new Bitcoin service comes along, it goes hand in hand with excitement and curiosity. As we have come to learn over the past few years, you should be careful about getting your hopes up for something that sounds too good to be true on paper. My Wallet Ltd. is one of those services you shouldn’t trust so easily with your Bitcoins. Editor’s Note: Bitcoinist.net does not endorse My Wallet Ltd. nor do we claim they are legit or a scam. Use service at your own risk. There is little information to be found about My Wallet Ltd., other than a press release which has hit a lot of the....
Blockchain has officially opened a closed alpha for its new bitcoin wallet. The launch precedes a formal debut that is likely to be the bitcoin wallet and block explorer provider's biggest announcement since it raised a then-record $30.5m Series A in October 2014. Nearly 3.8 million Blockchain wallet accounts have been opened since launch in 2011, according to its own statistics. Following its most recent fundraising, Blockchain has been relatively quiet with new announcements, experiencing heavy user backlash amid security issues in December as well as an under-the-radar CEO change. Alpha....
It's an especially simplified process for American and Canadian Coinbase users, who can use their debit cards for transfers. On Wednesday, Coinbase launched a new feature, dubbed "Coinbase Pay," that enables its clients to fund their Coinbase Wallets directly from a Chrome browser extension. According to its staff, Coinbase Pay intends to make it intuitive for anyone to participate in decentralized finance, or DeFi, swap tokens on decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, and purchase nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, in just a few clicks. Specifically, they wrote:"Before Coinbase Pay, users who wanted....