Proton, the Swiss company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN, has released a beta version of the newest offering in its suite of products that help to preserve online privacy — Proton Wallet. The wallet ...

Bitcoin wallets don’t hold BTC; they manage keys that access blockchain records. Your BTC lives on the blockchain as transaction history, not in files or apps. Losing access to your private key means ...

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Commercially available Bitcoin Bitcoin hardware wallets are celebrating a significant milestone in reaching their tenth anniversary. The world's first hardware wallet known as the Trezor Model One ...

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A Lightning Bitcoin wallet allows for instant and low-cost Bitcoin transactions by utilizing the Lightning Network, a second-layer solution built on Bitcoin. These wallets make microtransactions ...

Imagine if, back in 2013, you had locked 43.6 BTC securely away in your bitcoin wallet only to discover that your password no longer worked a decade later. Who would you turn to with just under $3 ...

Kgothatso Ngako’s Machankura startup is proving that Bitcoin can be useful to people even when they don’t have a fancy phone, or even an internet connection. Machankura, which is slang for “money” in ...