This September 25, it was announced the official sale of the portfolio cold BitBox02 and BitBox02 only for bitcoin, which allows users to generate and store the private keys offline. With this release, the team of Shift Cryptosecurity binds to the developers of portfolios cool that they have launched portfolios of hardware unique to bitcoin.The team of Shift Cryptosecurity said that contributed to the project of Bitcoin Core, so that gave an edition of the portfolio BitBox02 exclusively for bitcoin the community who requested it. For its part, earlier this month, SatoshiLabs noted that the beta version of its new firmware was also designed for bitcoiners maximalist; that is to say, those bitcoiners that support the idea that bitcoin should be the only criptomoneda.The premise of these users and of the developers of portfolios is that with a wallet that supports only bitcoin reduces the attack surface, unlike a portfolio with multiple assets. In addition to the firmware dedicated to bitcoin, the wallet BitBox02 also includes an update mechanism.This movement has been influenced because at the end of February, it was announced the support preliminary purses of hardware in the client of Bitcoin Core, and currently, there are various purses that are compatible with this library of Python and command-line tool. In addition to the Digital BitBox (the predecessor of the portfolio BitBox02 and BitBox02, only for bitcoin) and the Trezor One and Trezor Model T, in the GitHub repository of Bitcoin Core HWI lists the Ledger Nano X and the Ledger Nano’s, as well as KeepKey and Coldcard between the wallets for Bitcoin that implement it.Other functions that incorporate the new BitBox02 is the integration with FIDO, so that they can be used as devices for two-factor authentication on web sites compatible with this authenticator physical.According to the team, the new design of the portfolios BitBox02 took more than a year. Source: Shift Cryptosecurity.For its part, the version of BitBox02, multi-asset support, in addition to bitcoin (BTC) and litecoin (LTC), support for ether (ETH) and some tokens ERC20, although the feature is in beta phase. As well, users can begin to test transactions of ETH, USDT, BAT, LINK, MKR, ZRX, and DAI.The developers warned that it is best to store small amounts of funds in these criptoactivos for testing purposes, since the functionality can still be inestable.De similarly, this portfolio cold includes a screen to verify and confirm the transactions before they were signed, as well as sliders and touch a SD slot that allows you to save backups.
