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the news is a hoax. "It should be glaringly obvious why they are specifically not calling it a cryptocurrency wallet, and why they attempted to quiet rumours of
by elpinguinofrio 8y ago
the news is a hoax. "It should be glaringly obvious why they are specifically not calling it a cryptocurrency wallet, and why they attempted to quiet rumours of such claims back in December.
Security: Galaxy S10 is built with defense-grade Samsung Knox, as well as a secure storage backed by hardware, which houses your private keys for blockchain-enabled mobile services.
Samsung Knox is not a cryptocurrency wallet. Don't spend your hard earned money for this feature. Personally, I think the wireless charging of other Qi devices would prove more useful than "Samsung Knox"."
- Nursie 8y agoSounds like this is about as much of a cryptocurrency wallet as a TPM is in an x86 machine...
- teknologist 8y agoCryptocurrency wallets are simple pieces of software. Housing the keys is the hardest part - what's on top of that is just a bit of code to derive addresses from that key, query for balances on a blockchain node, send/receive calls etc. If that part won't be added by Samsung themselves it'll certainly aid in development of full crypto wallet apps.
- elpinguinofrio 8y agoyou surly never tried to write your own mobile wallet. Try to make it for grin/zcash, with "what's on top of that is just a bit of code" lol
- teknologist 8y agoI didn't say that code couldn't be copied from existing projects on GitHub
- superzamp 8y agoSure it isn't a crypto-wallet per se, but getting a phone with a dedicated key storage chip like Apple T2, Google Titan M or Samsung Knox seems like a decent security choice worth spending money on.
- arghwhat 8y agoTrue, but Knox is from 2013. No need to buy a new phone to get it.