World's Most Secure Bitcoin Wallet Armory Is Now Available In Official Debian Repository
One of the few wallet offering advanced security features has made its official appearance into the official "unstable" repository of the popular Linux distribution Debian. What is Armory? First, let's quote the great introduction wrote by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin when he reviewed the wallet two years ago: "Armory is the most advanced and secure Bitcoin client available and has been developed by Alan Reiner who is one of the world's premier experts in Bitcoin security. If your use case requires safely storing large value in bitcoins, then Armory is the only practical choice. Armory....
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Armory Technologies Inc. will be changing leadership soon. This announcement was made on the bitcointalk.org forum today by Armory CEO Alan Reiner. Armory Technologies, founded in 2011 by Reiner, Developed the Armory wallet, an open-source bitcoin wallet with security features like multisig and cold storage very early in Bitcoin’s development. Other security implementations like PGP signing of their packages instead of using the less secure md5 hash system made Armory one of the most secure open-source bitcoin wallets available. Failure of their enterprise offerings has brought the company....
Armory, a popular bitcoin wallet considered by security experts and bitcoin developers including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin as the world’s most secure bitcoin wallet has officially terminated its operations today. Over the past five years, Armory had led the evolution of bitcoin wallet technologies by providing the most advanced and secure bitcoin client tailored for large storage of bitcoins. The problem, however, appeared in the business and financial aspect of the company. Ultimately, Armory is an independent business, which relies on its own funds for the development of advanced....
Armory has thrown is support behind Segregated Witness (SegWit) as a way to address the bitcoin network scalability challenge, the wallet noted on a Github post. The Armory opposes hard forks that can attack the original bitcoin blockchain. Armory would consider supporting a long-lasting fork that does not attack the original chain and allow its users to transact on that chain if necessary. Depending on the extent of the changes, Armory could deploy the change completely and implement a migration tool to another wallet supporting the change. It could also choose not to support the fork.....
It can be difficult for the average user to keep his or her Bitcoins safe. If you keep your BTC in an online wallet, it's possible for the service to get hacked and for your Bitcoins to get stolen, like what happened with Inputs.io. 4100 BTC were stolen from Inputs.io, which is roughly worth $3.5 million at the time of this post. If you store your Bitcoins locally using something like Bitcoin-QT, you have to be sure to make secure, encrypted backups to avoid losing your coins. There's really no perfect solution that combines security and convenience. Even the widely-trusted and used....
Secure bitcoin wallet Armory has raised $600,000 in funding from a number of prominent investors. The seed round investment was partially made in bitcoin, and featured a contribution from entrepreneur, journalist and avid freedom of speech defender Trace Mayer. Las Vegas-based entrepreneur and Harvard University graduate Kevin Bombino also invested, as did Jim Smith, a fund manager and private investor. Alan Reiner, founder and CEO of Armory, said he was "super excited" about the investment. "This project has been an obsession of mine for the last two years, and I had been looking for an....