Hardbit Bitcoin Wallet - An Offline and Secure Cold Storage Unit
Hardbit Bitcoin Wallet. An Offline, Secure, Cold Storage Unit. Hardbit recently started shipping the Hardbit HB01 Bitcoin Hardware Wallet. The HB01 is a low cost offline, secure, cold storage solution for your bitcoins that still allows you to use them when you want. The Trezor wallet is just starting to ship pre-orders and Butterfly Labs has still not shipped their hardware wallet (or anything at all for that matter). This has left a huge gap in the market for a stand-alone solution to offline storage that is not a paper wallet or a complicated DIY method. Hardbit has stepped into that....
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Cold storage is perhaps the safest way to store your bitcoins (or any other cryptocurrencies) since cold wallets are kept offline. Anyone can send money to a cold wallet, but retrieving funds from cold storage isn't possible without physical access to the wallet, making this storage option a lot safer from online hackers. Many people print their private keys on paper, creating a "paper wallet". However, these types of wallets are susceptible to flooding, fires, ink wearing away, and more. Fortunately, CryoBit has created a more elegant solution - the Cryo Card. CryoBit claims to have....
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Even the most robust and advanced platforms suffer from hacking attacks. DDoS attacks targeted Kraken, while there were attacks on a number of other popular bitcoin exchanged. More than 18,000 bitcoins were stolen from European bitcoin exchange Bitstamp earlier this year. Still, many bitcoin users rely on hot (online) wallets. Today, many bitcoin wallet platforms provide additional security measures and enhanced security protocols to protect user funds. Bitcoin wallet users could also implement the multi-signature technology, which distributes unique private keys (signatures) to more than....