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Foundation Devices, Inc. has unveiled its caller Bitcoin hardware wallet, Passport Batch 2, a thinner and cheaper update to its erstwhile Passport Founder’s Edition.
The institution besides announced a caller Bitcoin mobile wallet, Envoy, which serves arsenic a companion app to the Passport enabling a much seamless acquisition successful mounting up and updating the hardware wallet.
“In airy of caller events crossed the world, sovereignty and privateness are much important than ever,” said Zach Herbert, Co-Founder and CEO of Foundation, successful a connection sent to Bitcoin Magazine. “At Foundation, we strive to marque sovereignty accessible to each and each individual. I’m thrilled to denote Passport Batch 2 and its companion app, Envoy, which volition marque Bitcoin sovereignty much attainable than ever before.”
The Foundation squad has revamped its hardware wallet and introduced a mobile companion app built from the crushed up, a duo it claims makes a sovereign Bitcoin setup easier to acceptable up and use. Image source: Foundation Devices.
Foundation said successful a blog post the Passport Batch 2 features a scratch-resistant, high-resolution IPS colour display, a removable modular signifier origin lithium-ion battery, a power-only USB-C port, meaning it doesn’t transportation immoderate data, a carnal powerfulness button, and an improved microSD paper slot.
While Passport brings a full caller design, its underlying information maintains past year’s mechanisms. Batch 2 Passport uses a accelerated STM processor, a Microchip 608a unafraid element, an Omnivision cameracube, and an avalanche sound root for entropy, Foundation said. Passport’s hardware and firmware are “copyleft” unfastened source, meaning derivative works are allowed but required to usage the aforesaid licence arsenic the archetypal work.
Passport’s companion app, Envoy, leverages Spiral’s Bitcoin Development Kit to bring an intuitive idiosyncratic experience, Foundation said. In summation to offering a elemental Bitcoin wallet, the app helps the idiosyncratic configure their Passport instrumentality much easily, keeps them up-to-date with firmware updates without needing a computer, and provides speedy entree to enactment resources. Envoy is besides copyleft unfastened root (GPLv3).
Envoy chiefly communicates with Passport successful an airgapped manner done QR codes, portion it interfaces with the Bitcoin web and Foundation servers done Tor arsenic a default. The idiosyncratic tin configure Envoy to usage their ain Bitcoin node. The app besides downloads indispensable firmware updates which tin beryllium transferred and installed into Passport via a microSD card.
Passport Batch 2 presells astatine a $199 terms tag and ships opening successful April with an industrial-grade microSD card, a removable lithium-ion battery, microSD adapters for iOS and Android and a USB-C charging cable.
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