Bitcoin Wallet Airbitz Announces The Launch of One-Touch 2FA
Airbitz One-Touch 2FA that makes Ease of Security a reality. Bitcoin startup Airbitz has launched the "One-Touch 2-Factor Authentication for its mobile Bitcoin wallet for iPhone and Android devices. Two-Factor Authentication Explained. Two-factor authentication (2FA) has become a key feature for enhanced security on the web and mobile devices. It involves the use of two or more different components to prove the identity of a user. The components used fall into three categories. The first has to be something that the user has in his possession. This could be in the form of a bank card, set....
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Block26, a new venture capital firm with eyes on the "block chain market," has made its first selection, leading an expected 1.25 million dollar seed funding round for the San Diego-based Airbitz mobile Bitcoin wallet. Readers may be familiar with the wallet, which won first place in the start up competition earlier this year in New York City at the Inside Bitcoins Conference. The primary novelty of Airbitz, besides ease of use, is its integration of a Bitcoin merchant directory, allowing the mobile user to locate a place to spend bitcoins within the same application. Aside from that, the....
Airbitz impressed judges last week in the Inside Bitcoins startup competition, and the wallet walked away as the winner. You might remember Airbitz as the wallet that has a built-in Bitcoin directory, which points users to nearby merchants that accept Bitcoin. The company is also known for rolling out the first one-touch 2-factor authentication for a mobile wallet, which makes security a little easier for the average Bitcoin user. The mission is to stick to Bitcoin's decentralized roots while also to make Bitcoin easy to use, a balance that appears to be the unicorn of the Bitcoin space.....
Bitcoin wallet provider Airbitz continues to close in on the release of buy-and-sell functionalities within its wallets interface. The Lead architect of the wallet, William Swanson, recently told CCN that the firm will soon offer the service around the globe through its partners. "Our US partner is bringing their service online and is in private Beta at the moment," Swanson said. "We will be able to switch on our in-app integration soon." The company also has a Eurozone partner ready to go. "We just need to hook up a bit of code," Swanson said. By offering this service through its....
Airbitz, the mobile bitcoin wallet, has integrated Fold, the Starbucks gift card app that accepts bitcoin payments, into its own app. In announcing the Fold offering, Airbitz said it will be helpful for people new to bitcoin and will encourage more consumers to start using bitcoin. The Fold app also allows users to receive discounts at Target and Whole Foods Market. Many bitcoin users already take advantage of the discounts Fold provides for Starbucks gift cards; users get a 20% discount paying with bitcoin. Airbitz Streamlines The Fold Process. Airbitz has further streamlined the process....
SAN DIEGO, September 1, 2016 — Airbitz, the popular mobile bitcoin wallet and world’s first edge security platform allowing developers to build apps that secure users’ data, announces the first foolproof bitcoin wallet password recovery process, called Password Recovery 2.0. Airbitz Claims the First “Zero-Knowledge” Password Recovery Feature. This new feature allows Airbitz users and Airbitz SDK-powered app users to easily recover a forgotten password to their private data using two-key authentication format. The user sends the first key to their own email address, with the device itself....