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We just came back from an exhilarating time at BTC Prague! 🌟 It was a fantastic opportunity to meet face-to-face with our partners and users. This event was particularly special as it brought (some of) our remote team together, allowing us to strengthen bonds and exchange ideas in person. Thank you to all who made BTC Prague a memorable gathering. Your energy and insights continue to inspire and drive our mission forward. https://m.primal.net/IpHE.bin

Partner of the week: @Niko Jilch! 'Was Bitcoin bringt' offers expert insights in German language, with additional English content on YouTube, in the newsletter and much more 👏

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You have asked for it!✨ BIP-85 child key support is now available for the BitBox02!🔐 Get this and other new features with this fresh update: 👇

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BitBox 04.2024 Brienz update

This BitBox Brienz update brings you child key support, UX improvements and changes to the transaction creation.

As promised, we are donating the proceeds of our Bitcoin whitepaper sales to Bitcoin open source development. This time, we are donating 1.5m sats to Sparrow Wallet! Sparrow is an excellent software to use for all kinds of hardware wallets and multisig setups.

Have you already used the "remember wallet" feature? Since the latest BitBoxApp update, you are able to see your balances and transactions without your BitBox02. Simply activate "remember wallet" in the account settings to use it!

🎄 We wish all of our followers, users, future customers and Bitcoiners a merry christmas! 🎄 A sincere thank you from all of us for your incredible support throughout the year. Without you, we wouldn't be where we are today. 🙏

You've asked, we listened!🥳 With the newest BitBoxApp update, we've added the ability to remember your wallet! You can now see your balances and transactions without plugging in your BitBox02.🤯 But that's not all! Check out what else we have added:

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BitBox 12.2023 Sustli update

The BitBox 12.2023 Sustli update allows the BitBoxApp to remember your device, hide your balance and use Wallet Connect.

In times of high Bitcoin fees like these, it's important to understand how you can save as many fees as possible. Learn with us, understand how UTXO consolidation works and save on future fees! This is especially useful for Pocket and @Relai 🇨🇭 users! 👇

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What is ‘UTXO consolidation’ and how can it help me reduce transaction fees?

If you receive a lot of transactions, you can save fees by consolidating your UTXOs.

🎄Are you looking for Christmas presents?🎄 Here is the perfect bundle to give to your precoiner friends and family: - 1 BitBox02 - 1 Copy of "The little Bitcoin book" - 3 "Magic internet money" Christmas cards - 3 Bitcoin Christmas tags Find it here: https://bitbox.shop/de/products/bitbox-christmas-special-45/?Edition=bitcoin-only-edition

Lightning development update: One of the many benefits of Lightning in the BitBoxApp is that you can receive a transaction on your desktop and spend it on your smartphone (and vice versa)! Watch how the received transaction immediately shows up in both BitBoxApps:

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Undecided about what hardware wallet to get? 🤔 Here's the tutorial you will probably never need: ⏩ Setting up the BitBox02 in less than 2 minutes. ⏩

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🚨 Two days ago, we received a concerning support request: An app that appeared to be the BitBoxApp asked the user to enter their recovery words. This was clearly a phishing attempt by an attacker trying to steal the users funds. Here's what happened: 👇 The victim has had his BitBox02 for multiple months already. One day, after plugging in their BitBox02, the BitBoxApp flashed and displayed the above screen. Knowing he wasn't supposed to enter his recovery words on a computer, he immediately contacted our support. 💪 Together with the victim, we figured out that a malicious BitBoxApp clone was placed on his computer. It does not replace the BitBoxApp, but is installed in another folder. Once the original BitBoxApp has been opened, it minimizes the original BitBoxApp and displays the malicious "Bitbox.exe" over all other content. The malware also appear to take screenshots to surveil the victim. 🚨 We were able to trace the origin of the malware to a malicious website. The victim used DuckDuckGo to search for "wasabi wallet" and ended up downloading a malicious installer. This is an extremely easy mistake to make, as there are multiple phishing sites in the top results. We have reached out to Wasabi Wallet and they assured us they do everything in their power to get rid of these fake sites. It is necessary for DuckDuckGo to take action and make sure these malicious websites don't appear in their search results. To make sure this does not happen to you, you should always verify exactly where you are downloading programs from. This is also why we provide instructions on how to verify the signatures for our BitBoxApp before you run them:

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Release v4.39.0 · BitBoxSwiss/bitbox-wallet-app

Release notes Bundle BitBox02 Bitcoin-only firmware version 9.15.0 Bundle BitBox02 Multi firmware version 9.15.0 Display the wallet root fingerpri...

Thank you again to the victim for helping us figure this out as quickly as possible! Their fast and correct response made it possible for us to figure this out really fast and warn other users. We've already shipped them a small 'thank you' package to show our gratitude. 🙏 In the end the BitBox02 did exactly what it was supposed to: It protected the users wallet when their PC got compromised. Would the victim have used a software wallet, chances are high that their money would have been stolen.

We are happy to announce that we are supporting the Bitcoin Design Foundation with 3 million satoshis. Their work on open source design has helped many apps become more user friendly. 🙏 This donation was made possible by the bitcoin whitepaper copies sold in our shop.