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Opinion

Crypto Custody for Advisors

Financial advisors seeking to navigate the crypto custody landscape must understand the full spectrum of crypto custody options, balancing innovation with risk management to optimize client portfolios.

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Tech

Ledger, Coinbase Pay Integrate to Give Users Direct Access to Buy, Sell Crypto

Bringing Coinbase Pay into the Ledger Live app is supposed to benefit Ledger users, making it easier to receive their crypto purchases from Coinbase directly on their Ledger hardware wallet, without any additional fees.

Ledger Chief Experience Officer Ian Rogers (Ledger)

Finance

Trezor Unveils New Hardware Wallets, Corrosion-Resistant 'Keep Metal' for Recovery

Trezor has produced a hardware wallet with a stripped-back design to appeal to less experienced crypto users, alongside two other new products.

Trezor Safe 3 wallet (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Tech

Jack Dorsey-Backed Bitcoin Wallet Bitkey to Integrate With Coinbase and Cash App

Public beta testing will begin in a few weeks according to parent company Block.

Bitkey self-custody bitcoin hardware wallet (Block)

Tech

Ledger Recover Fiasco Exposes Gap Between Blockchain Ideals and Technical Reality

After a video went viral of what appears to be a hardware wallet getting smashed with a hammer and then blow-torched into a charred mass, Ledger (and all of the crypto industry) got a searing reminder on the importance of managing expectations.

Screen grab from video purporting to show a user smashing a hardware wallet with a hammer and then setting it ablaze with a blowtorch. (@oklahodl1/Twitter)

Consensus Magazine

Ledger's PR Struggle Reveals Uncomfortable Trade-Offs for Crypto Storage

In a series of media appearances, executives said the French wallet-maker would make part of its code open-source and add additional security protections.

Ledger CEO Pascal Gauthier at Web Summit 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Harry Murphy/Web Summit via Sportsfile)

Tech

Crypto Security Firm Unciphered Claims Ability to Physically Hack Trezor T Wallet

Unciphered, a company of cybersecurity professionals who recover lost cryptocurrency, says it found a way to physically hack into the Trezor T hardware wallet. Trezor says it acknowledged a similar-sounding attack vector a few years ago.

Unciphered lab technician decasing the Trezor T. (Unciphered)

Videos

Unpacking Ledger’s Controversial New Bitcoin Key Recovery Feature

Paris-based hardware wallet-maker Ledger announced a new key-recovery feature this week, allowing users to recover their private keys. But opponents say that the product isn’t compatible with the concept of a hardware wallet, which promises to ring-fence private keys from prying eyes. "The Hash" panel discusses the criticism around the launch of "Ledger Recover" and the implications of privacy in crypto.

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Consensus Magazine

Is Ledger’s New Bitcoin Key Recovery Feature Safe? Experts Have Doubts

The French wallet-maker believes the service will help attract customers turned off by crypto's unforgiving self-custody ethos. But critics wonder whether the concept is compatible with a real hardware wallet.

“Security is really the precursor to mass adoption and scalability," Alex Zinder, global head of hardware wallet maker Ledger Enterprises said, on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover," show. (Hendrik Morkel via Unsplash)

Finance

Ledger Continues to Defend Recovery System, Says It's Always 'Technically' Possible to Extract Users' Keys

"Technically speaking it is and always has been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction. You have always trusted Ledger not to deploy such firmware whether you knew it or not," Ledger said earlier on a now-deleted tweet.

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