UK-based crypto data supplier and cryptocurrency wallet Blockchain.com has recently launched a comprehensive institutional platform Blockchain Principal Strategies (BPS), according to a blog post today, June 28. Blockchain.com claims the new platform will provide secure and “unparalleled” access to markets, services, and research for institutions, family businesses, and retail investors. Blockchain.com co-founder Peter Smith commented that the new institutional grade platform aims to provide maximum security while investing: “BPS provides clients the opportunity to invest in digital assets with the same peace of mind and security that has become synonymous with the Blockchain name.” BPS offers a number of trading …

Of all Bitcoin web-wallet providers as listed on bitcoin.org, Blockchain.info, Coinbase and Xapo are in favor of raising Bitcoin's block size limit from 1 to 20 megabytes as advised by Bitcoin Core developer Gavin Andresen, while Coinkite and GreenAddress have come out against the proposal. This means that Bitcoin's major wallet providers based on venture capital investments as well as the total amount of users – Blockchain.info, Coinbase and Xapo - all agree on Andresen's proposal to raise the maximum size of Bitcoin blocks to 20 megabytes. But with Coinkite and GreenAddress opposing the idea, an industry consensus remains out …

On December 8, Blockchain.info—a Bitcoin web wallet provider and block explorer—announced that they’d misfired a software update. The faulty update resulted in insecure private key generation for “less than 0.0002%” of their users for a few hours, and about 250 bitcoins were consequently reported stolen. An anonymous white hat (meaning well-intentioned) hacker going by “johoe” noticed the security problem and began sweeping coins from vulnerable addresses. Two days later on December 10, the white hat hacker emailed Blockchain.info and offered to return the 255 bitcoins to them, worth about US$90,000 at time of writing. Johoe apparently uses a Trezor hardware …

The two previous articles of the series acquainted the auditory with desktop and mobile wallets. After the chosen classification the last type is known as Internet or web wallets. Today we are going to observe the advantages and disadvantages, and provide a list of most interesting services to consider establishing a wallet. The definition of described group of wallets might be following – Internet or web wallets enable the owner of Bitcoins to use them on any browser, even on a mobile devices, and often offer additional services. As the responsibility is divided with the provider of the service, still …