Block, the financial services company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, created Bitkey to let users more easily store bitcoin outside of web-based exchanges, which have historically been unstable (or even collapsed). To access your crypto, just unlock a physical device, made of Corian, with your fingerprint and tap it with your phone. The system has safeguarded methods to regain access should you lose your phone, the hardware, or even both, via “trusted contacts”—you can choose, say, your mom. Bitkey brings bitcoin “self-custody to the mainstream,” says Block’s head of hardware, Thomas Templeton.
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Correction, Oct. 30
The original version of this story misstated the material Bitkey is made from. It is Corian, not quartz.
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