Elliptic Joins With Gem to Create World's Most Secured Multi-Sig Bitcoin Wallet

Elliptic Joins With Gem to Create World's Most Secured Multi-Sig Bitcoin Wallet

Bitcoin vault service provider Elliptic has partnered with the developer-focused Bitcoin platform provider Gem to further enhance the security of their multi-signature wallets. Elliptic made an official announcement regarding the same on its twitter page today. Generally, a multi-signature Bitcoin wallet needs three unique private keys for the authorization of a transaction. The owner of the wallet holds two of these private keys while the wallet provider holds the third. As per the information conveyed, Elliptic will act as a trusted and independent third party to provide insured storage....


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