Tag Archives: Bitcoin Wallet

Hardware wallet company Ledger has raked in $380 million thanks to a Series C funding round. The event marks the third largest crypto funding round in the history of the space. Ledger Wallet Has Earned Some Solid Money At the time of writing, Ledger boasts a valuation exceeding $1.5 billion. The latest funding event was led by a wide array of known crypto firms including 10T holdings, Draper Esprit, Draper Associates, DCG, and Cathay Innovation. Prior to this round,...

Jack Dorsey – the CEO of payment platform Square and social media giant Twitter – is headlining bitcoin news again after serving as a featured speaker at the world’s biggest bitcoin conference, which recently took place in Miami, Florida. Jack Dorsey Is Building a Wallet and Investing in Mining Dorsey announced that Square is looking to build a new cryptocurrency hardware wallet that customers can use to store bitcoin. Dorsey says that over the past two years, bitcoin...

Schweiz: Bitcoin kaufen war noch nie so einfach. Das sind die 3 beliebtesten Bitcoin-Börsen Ich werde immer wieder gefragt, wie und wo man als Bitcoin-Einsteiger und Anfänger am einfachsten Bitcoin kaufen kann. Meine Antwort darauf lautet: Investiere in Know How und Wissen. Denn Wissen zahlt sich immer aus; irgendwann. Wer dennoch ein paar Franken übrig hat, welche im schlimmsten Fall auch verloren gehen dürfen, der findet in diesem...

Lost or forgotten passwords to bitcoin and cryptocurrency accounts typically lead to money that cannot be accessed, and according to German prosecutors, this appears to have hindered a recent case of criminal fraud involving bitcoin mining.Lost Passwords Remain a Serious IssueAt the time of writing, law enforcement agents in Germany are holding a man – who currently remains anonymous – that has stored as many as 1,700 bitcoin units in a specific account. The big clincher is that the man...

Corporate Intelligence Services (CIS) – a firm that collects debts and investigates cryptocurrency-related activity – has issued its own bitcoin wallet to allow customers to pay their debts with digital assets.CIS Says You Can Pay What You Owe with CryptoAs it stands, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies cannot be used much to pay for items due to their ongoing volatility. Many stores, retailers and similar establishments do not accept these assets as methods of payment given that they are rather...

Recently, Live Bitcoin News published a story about Stefan Thomas, a San Francisco resident originally from Germany that had only two tries left to access his locked bitcoin stash. Here is an update for all who may have been worried about his situation.Stefan Thomas: Finding Peace Through LossThomas has all his digital funds stored in a special kind of wallet known as Iron Key. The wallet is built to be stronger than standard wallets and less susceptible to fraud and theft. The big clincher...

Recently, Live Bitcoin News put out a story discussing how many people have potentially lost their passwords and thus cannot access the mega bitcoin stashes they’ve collected over the years. According to billionaire investor and former hedge fund manager Mike Novogratz, this isn’t likely to occur again anytime soon.Mike Novogratz: When the Price Is This High, People Won’t ForgetOne of the big problems with bitcoin and crypto in general is that it can be easy to lose one’s login information,...

One of the big problems with cryptocurrency is that it requires long and extensive passwords to remain secure. Owners of digital currency have often come across this issue. They forget their passwords and cannot access their funds, and as a result, these funds get locked up or lost forever. For Stefan Thomas, the problem is even bigger considering it’s keeping him from gaining access to well over $200 million in bitcoin at press time.Losing Passwords Usually Leads to Lost BTCBorn in Germany...

The Treasury Department is looking to apply the same rules to cryptocurrency that they do to standard fiat transactions.Treasury Department Seeks to Limit Non-Hosted Wallet ActivityThe idea is to gather more information regarding the identities of those who engage in large crypto transfers and thereby potentially identify criminals and lawbreakers. Specifically, the Treasury Department is looking to potentially uncover the identities of those who may possess wallets that are not hosted by...

It looks like everyone has been so obsessed with bitcoin as of late that people have forgotten about some of the smaller coins that the asset is known to compete with. Currencies such as Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple’s XRP and Chainlink.Ethereum and Smaller Assets Are Also BoomingTo an extent, we can’t blame individuals for looking away considering how well bitcoin has been doing. The currency has reached its highest point in three years and is presently trading for well over $18,500. At the...