BitGo Engineers Launch Ethereum Wallet Side Project
Amid escalating interest in the Ethereum blockchain platform, a group of software engineers at bitcoin security specialist BitGo have created a multi-signature wallet offering The news follows the release of the first production version of the Ethereum platform, Homestead, last week. At the time, Ethereum's developers also released Mist, a more user-friendly wallet that would allow users to deploy smart contracts and store ethers, the digital currency that powers its applications. Despite this progress, however, wallet development on Ethereum has perhaps lagged behind, an issue creator....
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