Square plans to make hardware wallet for bitcoin

Square plans to make hardware wallet for bitcoin

by Joseph Anthony
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Square CEO Jack Dorsey

Square Inc (SQ.N) will make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the payments company confirmed in a tweet on Thursday shortly before US Senator Elizabeth Warren flagged growing risks posed to consumers and financial markets by the cryptocurrency market.

Bitcoin wallets can be stored offline or online at cryptocurrency exchanges, venues where bitcoin can be bought and sold for traditional currencies or other virtual coins.
With a non-custodial wallet, you have sole control of your private keys, which in turn control your cryptocurrency and prove the funds are yours. With a custodial wallet, another party controls your private keys. Most custodial wallets are web-based exchange wallets.
โ€œWe have decided to build a hardware wallet and service to make bitcoin custody more mainstreamโ€ฆโ€, Jesse Dorogusker, head of hardware at Square said in a twitter thread.
โ€œThe questions and principles we surfaced in our original thread resonated. We have a lot of questions and issues to reconcile and weโ€™ll start with this product direction: bitcoin first, global distribution, multisig to achieve assisted-self-custody, and prioritising mobile use,โ€ he continued.
Many companies have emerged to serve a growing need to protect their assets from online theft.
Last month, Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey hinted in a tweet that the company was considering creating a non-custodial hardware wallet for bitcoin. Dorsey is also the chief executive of Twitter Inc. read more
Cryptocurrencies reached a record capitalization of $2 trillion in April, but U.S. oversight of the market remains patchy.
Warren, a former US presidential candidate, on Thursday raised concerns in a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler, in an effort that could help lay the groundwork for legislation to regulate the fast-growing cryptocurrency market.
The price of bitcoin has fallen to โ‚ฌ27,976.27, less than half its recent record high, as regulators step up pressure to provide a framework for cryptocurrencies.
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