Quote from: someone42 on June 17, 2013, 12:19:07 PM

Quote from: Scrat Acorns on June 17, 2013, 08:06:53 AM

I like Trezor and I will most likely be ordering a few.

Hardware wallets are needed in order for Bitcoin to get to the next level. Getting the average user to secure their computing environment against malware is a next to impossible task, and hardware wallets circumvent this issue.

I suspect we'll be seeing more projects of similar nature materialize in the coming months.

allten and I have been working on the Bitsafe, another hardware wallet. Its development history actually extends goes back further than Trezor's. There are assembled open-source development boards available (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152517.0;all), as well as prototype open-source firmware (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78614.0).

The Bitsafe project was picked up by Butterfly Labs, who are helping us bring it to market later this year. They have (understandably) decided to not do the preorder thing.

Quote from: gweedo on June 14, 2013, 11:51:19 PM

Does anyone know if Armory would be supporting this? I hope armory would support this so then I don't need a whole offline computer just for signing transactions.

I spoke to etotheipi at Bitcoin 2013 and he was very enthusiastic about hardware wallets. He felt that they complemented Armory well. Anyway, I think Armory is well-positioned to support hardware wallets, after all, a hardware wallet is basically an offline signing wallet.

While Armory does have some good features, setting up and using the offline/online watching only wallet function is very complicated, is time consuming and is easy to mess up (even for the computer savvy )

Trezor appears to provide the same level of security in a more user-friendly way.

And that is why I welcome it and any future developments in this area.