Bitkey Starts Shipping First Units of Its Hardware Device, Adds Security and Recovery Features
2024年3月13日 - 9:27PM
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- Among other features, Bitkey’s customers are
now able to set up trusted contacts to help them easily recover
access to their wallets in certain scenarios
- Through Bitkey’s integrations with Cash App
and Coinbase, customers can easily transfer, and now also buy their
bitcoin from partners
- Bitkey’s hardware device begins shipping to
customers, and the Bitkey app is already available for downloads
across app stores
Bitkey, the self-custody bitcoin wallet built by the
Proto team at Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ), has started shipping its
first hardware devices to customers' homes this week and people can
now truly own and manage their bitcoin easily and safely. After
opening pre-orders, the team has continued working on finishing
additional security and recovery features while putting the final
touches to the new Bitkey app, which is now available for download
in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. People in 90+
countries who want to take control of their bitcoin can now order
Bitkey’s hardware device for delivery, which comes with the Bitkey
app and a set of recovery tools.
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Bitkey’s wallet was built to bring more people to self-custody
with an easy-to-use and safe solution. A major focus for the team
building Bitkey has always been providing accessible recovery
experiences that prioritize both simple and secure paths for
customers to control and recover their money if something goes
wrong. When moving from custodial to self-custody solutions,
customers have historically had to confront complexity: having to
remember and store long passwords, and struggling through difficult
and unfamiliar setup processes that often leave customers prone to
accidental loss of their bitcoin. Bitkey’s recovery design
incorporates tools to easily but securely regain access to one’s
account in every situation possible.
What’s new: trusted contacts and more security &
independence for customers
The beta-tested version came with two features as part of
Bitkey’s recovery design: Cloud Backup, for when someone
loses access to the mobile key, for example if their phone is lost
or stolen - or they get an upgrade; and Delay and Notify,
which allows customers to regain access to their funds through a
new set of keys if they only have access to one of their two keys
(either mobile or hardware).
Now, the Bitkey wallet brings new recovery features that top off
the recovery design behind the wallet:
- Trusted Contacts, an optional feature that lets
customers set up people they trust who can help them verify
recovery requests and recover their wallets when both the mobile
key and the hardware key have been lost; and an
- Emergency Access Kit, which gets automatically stored in
the customer’s cloud account and can help them recover if the app
is no longer available on the app stores or if they no longer want
to use the third key stored by Block.
According to Jacob B., one of Bitkey’s beta customers from
Mexico: “I think Bitkey is dead simple with healthy security. It
allows me to quickly and confidently help normal people get set up
with bitcoin.” Another beta tester, Australian photographer Georges
F. says that “I was amazed at how easy it was to set
everything up with the fingerprint, and that was pretty much it!
Also, having more than one system to notify me is safer, and having
one key on the iCloud knowing it’s going to be restored, is very
good to know.”
In addition, to help connect the world of today’s fiat money
with bitcoin’s financial system, through Bitkey’s integrations with
Cash App and Coinbase, customers can seamlessly transfer, and now
also buy, their bitcoin from partners. These two partnerships are
the first of more to come globally as the team continues exploring
other strategic integrations that will arrive at Bitkey in the next
few months.
About Bitkey
Bitkey is a self-custody bitcoin wallet with three parts — a
mobile app to make transactions easily on the phone, a hardware
device to protect savings securely offline, and a set of recovery
tools in case customers lose their phone, hardware, or both. As an
innovative multi-signature self-custody wallet, Bitkey provides
innovative recovery tools that give customers multiple ways to
recover their money, so they can take their bitcoin off exchanges
and truly own and control it themselves, without the anxiety of
guarding a long complex seed phrase. Bitkey provides the
convenience of a mobile app, the security of hardware, and peace of
mind that in case they lose something, customers can still recover
their money. Bitkey is built by the Proto Team at Block, Inc.
Proto’s mission is to help accelerate the world’s transition to a
more open economy by making products that increase access and
independence for everyone. Bitkey is the first of these. Find out
more at bitkey.world.
About Block, Inc.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly, Square, Inc.) is a global
technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of
Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more
people access the economy. Square makes commerce and financial
services easy and accessible for sellers with its integrated
ecosystem of technology solutions. With Cash App, anyone can easily
send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or bitcoin. Afterpay
brings Square and Cash App together, connecting consumers and
businesses. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs
and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open source
platform and developer infrastructure that enables everyone to
access and participate in the global economy.
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