Recovery firm proposes cracking former Ripple CTO’s $244M Bitcoin hard drive
Stefan Thomas, the former chief technology officer at Ripple, has an IronKey hard drive containing 7,002 BTC with only two attempts at guessing a password remaining.
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Stefan Thomas, the former chief technology officer at Ripple, has an IronKey hard drive containing 7,002 BTC with only two attempts at guessing a password remaining.
Trezor is celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing three new self-custody products, focusing on providing entry-level devices.
Ledger’s CEO says that, while it may take a few years, big money is getting into crypto.
An electronics design manager who made his own Trezor One has assessed the difficulty of building a DIY crypto wallet from scratch.
Despite facing notable criticism over the Ledger seed recovery tool, the hardware crypto wallet firm expects to launch the Ledger Recover tool in Q4 2023.
Trezor doesn’t plan to introduce any private key recovery tools, as it has provided all possible means to help users secure the seed phrase, CEO Matej Zak said.
According to Elliptic, a blockchain analysis company, an estimated 5,500 crypto wallets have been affected by the attack.
Ledger Recover is an OTA firmware update, which would allow users to back up their seed phrases by third-party entities only if a user chooses to opt-in to the new…
Many members of the crypto community believe Ledger's latest seed phrase recovery feature is a bad idea.
Cryptocurrency users are once again reminded about the importance of using only authentic hardware wallets.