Doug Miller of KeepKey Bitcoin Wallet on SegWit and New Features
KeepKey is one of the top Bitcoin Hardware Wallets in the industry right now. I recently had the opportunity to have a hands-on experience with one, as well as speak to Doug Miller of KeepKey. KeepKey is a very solidly-built wallet with a large, very easy to read screen. A lot of attention to detail has been done both with the Bitcoin Wallet and the app.....
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Most major Bitcoin wallet service providers, exchanges and startups have either planned Segregated Witness (SegWit) support or are SegWit support ready. The Bitcoin Core development team recently updated its list of 73 Bitcoin startups that have announced their plans to support SegWit. Amongst the list was popular Bitcoin wallet service providers Blockchain.info, AirBitz, Armory, BreadWallet, Trezor, Samourai Wallet, Ledger hardware wallet, Electrum, GreenAddress, KeepKey and Mycelium. Various mining pools including Slush, Bitfury, BTCC, CGMiner and CKPool signalled SegWit support, as well....
Contrary to most claims, Segregated Witness (Segwit) doesn’t necessarily require users to manually upgrade their systems or wallets in order to receive Segwit transactions. The activation of Segwit does provide notable changes to the layer one of the bitcoin network and as a result, wallet platforms will be required to alter their applications pertaining to the changes made by Segwit to the bitcoin protocol. For users of major bitcoin wallet platforms which already are Segwit-ready such as Blockchain, Coinbase, Copay, Ledger and Keepkey, upon the activation of Segwit, they will be able to....
The world’s most popular non-custodial bitcoin wallet platform with over 11 million wallets created to date is officially Segregated Witness (Segwit) ready. Blockchain, also known as Blockchain.info, has been officially updated from “planned” to “[Segwit] ready” on the Segwit Adoption list maintained the Bitcoin Core development team. Most major bitcoin exchanges and mining pools including Bitfinex and Bitfury have already listed themselves as Segwit ready, showing their support towards Segwit as both a scaling solution and a transaction malleability elimination method which ultimately....
The hardware wallet manufacturer KeepKey (KeepKey.com) has just announced its partnership with the Shapeshift exchange. With this collaboration, KeepKey will be the first-ever hardware wallet to integrate with an exchange. FIrst Hardware Wallet to Adopt Shapeshift API. The new partnership with Shapeshift will allow KeepKey users to securely exchange a....
As developers prepare for the launch of Segregated Witness, a proposed scaling method for the bitcoin network, one startup based in the US has purchased an entire firm to help it prepare for the change. Hardware wallet firm KeepKey announced today that it has acquired MultiBit, a desktop-based bitcoin wallet program. According to KeepKey founder and CEO Darin Stanchfield, the purchase was aimed at positioning the firm for both the launch of Segregated Witness, known commonly as SegWit, as well as other improvements to the bitcoin network. He told CoinDesk: "All the new plans for the....