Toronto-based Bitcoin consultancy and software development company Decentral has announced the integration of its Jaxx line of blockchain wallets with digital currency exchange platform ShapeShift.io. The integration of ShapeShift with Jaxx wallets ...
According to an Apple Insider report published on August 9, a disturbing trend has emerged on Apple’s App Store as a series of malicious copycats of well-known Bitcoin wallet apps became available to download. Some of the fake wallets looked quite si...
In a managed online wallet, everything is controlled by the wallet’s provider. You have an account with the provider with a username and password, much like an email account or an internet forum account, and you can log onto your account and send and...
Of all the formalized monetary systems that have ever been used by mankind, Bitcoin is unique in the fact that it exists entirely as pure information. The blockchain, the database storing Bitcoin transactions so the system can figure out who owns wha...
Traditional Bitcoin clients are ordinary programs that you download onto your computer. Receiving, verifying and sending transactions is all done from your machine and your computer connects to the Bitcoin network directly. Advantages include: Not re...
After the failure of MyBitcoin in August, managed online wallets have become much less popular unless there is some compelling feature that makes them more convenient (eg. also being a currency exchange), although the one that remains is Instawallet....
Wallet security has always been a primary concern in the Bitcoin development community. Although no other payment system in existence grants you the same level of freedom and control over your money that Bitcoin does, at the same time it can also be ...
One of the crucial features for a digital transaction medium to be viable for payments made in person is that it should be reliable, and nearly instant. A transaction, once created by the sender, should appear on the receiver’s device within one to t...
Over the past few months, Bitcoin has taken the Chinese community by storm. In early April, Iwannabuy, an online discount store selling air purifiers, humidifiers and anti-pollution masks to people living in China started accepting Bitcoin for its pr...
A critical security vulnerability has been found in Android which renders bitcoins stored in Android Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to theft, and the exploit is currently being used in the wild to steal people’s bitcoins. Several people have reported tha...
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