Elliptic Joins With Gem to Create World's Most Secured Multi-Sig Bitcoin Wallet
Bitcoin vault service provider Elliptic has partnered with the developer-focused Bitcoin platform provider Gem to further enhance the security of their multi-signature wallets. Elliptic made an official announcement regarding the same on its twitter page today. Generally, a multi-signature Bitcoin wallet needs three unique private keys for the authorization of a transaction. The owner of the wallet holds two of these private keys while the wallet provider holds the third. As per the information conveyed, Elliptic will act as a trusted and independent third party to provide insured storage....
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UK-based digital assets service provider Elliptic has partnered with Gem to offer a custodian service for the private keys of multisig wallets. Multisig wallets have at least three unique private keys. Through the new partnership, consumers will control one private key, while Gem and Elliptic will have custody over the two others. Customers are not obliged to assign the third key to Elliptic. However, if the client loses their key, Gem and Elliptic will use their private keys to transfer the user's funds into a new Gem multisig account belonging to the customer. Dr James Smith, CEO at....
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