🎉 Envoy v1.6.2 is here 🎉 We have some major quality of life improvements and bug fixes targeted at those with their display sizes or text in iOS and Android set to higher than the defaults, have migrated to our new Foundation.xyz domain, and more. For the full release notes, you can read all about this new version of Envoy on our blog:

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Envoy version 1.6.2 is now live!

We're excited to announce that the latest version of Envoy - v1.6.2 - is now live on all your favorite mobile platforms!

Passport: The most stylish and user-friendly hardware wallet on the market! Ever find yourself staring at Passport online, pondering its sleek exterior and wondering about all the incredible physical features it holds? Take a peek below 🧡 Our support doc details all of the physical features of Passport and their respective use cases, so you don't have to wonder again:

Device Features

🚨 FAQ Do I need a Passport to use Envoy? NO, absolutely not! Not only is it the number 1 sidekick for Passport owners, but Envoy is a fully featured mobile wallet, perfect for securing your smaller day-to-day spending amounts of Bitcoin. Check it out:

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Envoy

Experience Bitcoin, simplified. Envoy is a simple Bitcoin mobile wallet with powerful privacy features. Get up and running in only 60 seconds.

As a Bitcoin-only company rooted in open-source software (FOSS), we're committed to enabling our users to reclaim their digital sovereignty 🔒 Rise 'ABOVE' with us for transparency and freedom and you will be on your way to to find word number 10 🕵️

🌄 Bitcoin helps us climb out of the Valley of oppression to the heights of freedom. Amidst the peaks in this tweet, word 9 lies discreet. Can you find it?

Check out the revamped reseller's page on our website, making it easier than ever to find a Bitcoin store near you. Interested in becoming a reseller? Scroll down, fill the form, uncover word 8 🕵️ Hint: Bring 'freedom tech' to your 👀 community today!

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Resellers

Official Foundation resellers who offer Passport directly. Find your Bitcoin hardware wallet at these worldwide shops!

☕ GM, today brings a shift, can you crack the riddle? 🔍 Word number 7, it's time to unveil: In Bitcoin's domain, where fortunes prevail, Where weights are lifted, and lights are dim, The missing word is the _ _ _

Let's stay humble and stack friends together with the folks over at @orangepillapp! They may hold the clue to word number 6 👀 🔎 Connect with new allies on Orange Pill App and keep the name in mind!

A Magical Backup experience 🪄 Envoy makes self-custody a breeze, with a 60s setup that even grandma can handle 👵 🔍 Check out our new Envoy page where this type of encryption protects your backups - Can you spot word number 5?

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Envoy

Experience Bitcoin, simplified. Envoy is a simple Bitcoin mobile wallet with powerful privacy features. Get up and running in only 60 seconds.

🌞 Good Morning! Let's keep the hunt going! Have you ever imagined forming your very own Bitcoin Circle of Trust? If you could handpick individuals to join your exclusive Circle, who would you select? While you dream up your perfect Circle, you may find word number 4!

🎉 Celebrations are in flow! As part of our website launch, we're also giving away a Passport! How to win: ✅ Like & Repost ✅ Comment below with your feedback on our new website Winner announced on Friday. Can you spot the "Hidden" word? It's clue number 3 🕵️ Please note: this competition is run across nostr and X one winner will be selected at random :) good luck ❤️

It’s time for a big Reveal — say hello to our new home, foundation.xyz 🏠 Our website and domain have served us well, but we’ve long since outgrown the “Devices” moniker. To pave the way for a new wave of freedom tech from our team, we’re launching a new site today 🧵 While we may have started as a purely hardware-focused company, we’ve grown and evolved into a freedom tech company that encompasses hardware, software and Bitcoin self-custody tools. We can’t wait to show you what we’ve planned in a HUGE 2024 that will even better reflect this! With all of this, it’s time to shift from our old

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Homepage

Self custody is finally attainable. Secure your Bitcoin with an unprecedented combination of elegance and ease of use.

domain to a new, improved, and more accessible

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Homepage

Self custody is finally attainable. Secure your Bitcoin with an unprecedented combination of elegance and ease of use.

Our website now properly reflects our design-first approach and our simple, intuitive user experiences that grow with you. A huge part of the new experience is letting you have your voice be heard, as we now feature real user feedback on every product page. Ever wondered what other Envoy or Passport users think of the experience? Wonder no longer 📺

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Passport Core

The hardware wallet you already know how to use. Passport offers hardcore security in a premium package.

Another core part of our effort has always been going above and beyond when it comes to customer support, but we never had a proper support page. All that has changed, with an entire page dedicated to contacting our support, reading FAQs, and much more.

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Support

Need help with your Passport hardware wallet or Envoy mobile app? Ask questions and view resources at our support center.

Speaking of customer support — now our Concierge white-glove service has a new home, giving you everything you need to know about it. Going from zero to self-custody has never been easier than with Passport + Concierge.

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Concierge

Interested in Bitcoin self custody but hesitant to take the first step? Book your Concierge session today!

We also have a deep passion for user education here at Foundation and wanted to better reflect that in our blog. We’ve drastically improved our blog, with better readability, better formatting, and easier navigation. Take a peek 👇

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Blog

Read the latest company updates, blog posts, and more from the Foundation team.

Want to deep-dive into the specifics of our devices security model? Or simply learn more about the deep ethos of personal privacy that goes into how we design all of our products? Now you can do that at a glance on our new Security page.

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Security

Learn about Foundation's advanced security practices for our devices, mobile apps, and company operations.

We can’t wait to hear your feedback on our new site! We have a HUGE week of giveaways, games, and celebrations planned for this week, so be sure to follow us to be sure you don’t miss out 👀

🚀 Brace yourselves, because Envoy v1.6 has just landed. Discover the highlights of our latest release: **⏩ Full “replace-by-fee (RBF)” control is here! ✍️ Custom Passport Names 🖥️ Redesign of address and amount displays 🌐 Improved Tor support** **⏩ Replace-by-fee control** RBF allows you to boost the fee on a transaction you’ve sent that’s stuck surfing the mempool, or even cancel an in-flight transaction and send it back to yourself. Just tap on a transaction that is unconfirmed and quickly Boost or Cancel it in Envoy. But how do you actually use it? Simply tap “⏩ Boost” when viewing a pending transaction’s details to get your transaction back to the top of the queue. Sent a transaction by mistake? You can also tap “❌ Cancel Transaction” and send the funds back to yourself using RBF as well. **✍️ Custom Passport Names** When you set a custom name for your Passport, now that name will show up automatically in the Devices tab on Envoy. Have multiple Passports in the house? Now you can easily tell them apart in Envoy using custom names! 🫡 **🌐 Improved Tor performance** Improved Tor performance on iOS (and some Android vendors), especially when it comes to getting fiat exchange rates. Updated Arti (the Rust-native Tor library) in our library to the latest version, v1.1.12. Keeping privacy simple one step at a time. ✌️ 🖥️ **Redesigned Address & Amount Screen** We’ve also brought a redesign of address and amount displays to Envoy, making it easier to view amounts (in sats or BTC) and verify addresses. A special thanks to the fantastic Bitcoin Design community for spearheading the concept here! Sexy! Whilst these are the major highlights, there's many more bug fixes and improvements packed into this release! Dive into the complete release notes below:

Foundation

Envoy version 1.6.0 is now live!

We're excited to announce that the latest version of Envoy - v1.6.0 - is now live on all your favorite mobile platforms!

Haven't tried Envoy yet? You can give it a go here: https://foundationdevices.com/envoy

We're So Back 💨 Our monthly newsletter is back in action with February's edition - ready for you to dive straight into! Catch up and subscribe here 👇🏼

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Foundation Updates: February 2024

We’ll get you all caught up with the latest at Foundation and in the space in this month’s newsletter.

GM, 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞-𝐮𝐩 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥! ☕️ Bitcoin surged & Cₒᵢₙbₐₛₑ cᵣₐₛₕₑd (shocker), while folks saw a big fat 0 in their Bitcoin balance.😱 Time to embrace #SelfCustody. 👊 Take control. Remember, every Satoshi counts!

Key Manager 🤝 @Damus Create a new Nostr key entirely offline with Passport's Key Manager extension and then sign into Damus with a single QR scan. Creating a Nostr key securely + signing in has never been easier! 🤯 Get the full details on how Key Manager simplifies your Bitcoin wallets and Nostr keys from our blog post:

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All your wallets, one backup

Learn how Key Manager brings two powerful new tools in child seeds and Nostr keys down to earth. No expertise necessary.

Satoshi's vision for Bitcoin: FREE and open source (FOSS). Free and open source is different than just being "source viewable." As shown here, Bitcoin was and is built on FOSS, just like every Bitcoin-centric project should be. Stay true out there!

Taproot 🤝 Passport Today we’ve released Passport firmware v2.3.0, with a massive set of new features and improvements. Is it our biggest release ever? 🤔 You be the judge. **Full Taproot support is here 🥕** Passport now has full support for sending and receiving using Taproot, making the combination of Envoy and Passport a powerful way to leverage the latest and greatest tech that Bitcoin has to offer. **Verifying addresses just got way easier 📥** We’ve improved address display based on the Bitcoin Design guidelines, making it easier than ever to verify addresses on Passport! Shout-out to @bitcoin_design for the excellent work on this standard! Check it out 📷 **Passport now has full support for verifying and displaying OP_RETURN messages directly on-screen 💬** Want to send a snarky message to your friends or enshrine a headline directly in Bitcoin? Now you can do it (and verify it offline) with passport! **We’ve enabled SeedQR exports of the master seed 📷** While this feature should be used with caution, SeedQR is a rapidly growing standard that Bitcoiners are using to backup and restore their seed phrases. Now you can more easily do so on Passport! **Passport now has a brand new address explorer ✉️** Ever wanted to browse the addresses of one of your Passport accounts on-device? Now you can! We’ve worked hard to make it as easy as possible to navigate and find addresses for verification directly on Passport. **12-word seed phrases are here 🌱** Passport now allows the creation of 12 word seed phrases, and defaults to 12 word seed phrases during onboarding. Want to learn more about why 12-word seed phrases are more than secure enough? 👇 **Calculate a manual seed phrase checksum directly on Passport 📝** If you’re an advanced user who wants to generate a seed phrase offline, now you can have Passport automatically generate the final word for you when you import it. **It’s time to name your Passport! 🔠** Now you can set a name for your Passport that gets synced to Envoy when you pair it, and lets you easily distinguish between different family member’s Passports or your unnecessarily large Passport collection 👀 And much, much more. To get the full list of what we’ve added, improved, or fixed, read the full release notes below.

Foundation

Passport version 2.3.0 is now live!

We're excited to announce that the latest version of Passport - 2.3.0 - is now live and available for install via Envoy!

Thanks for joining us on this journey as we build and improve Passport, and we hope you enjoy this latest release!

Are you in it for the Tech? Bitcoiners are building some awesome things. What's the most exciting Bitcoin development you've seen lately? Share your projects, ideas, and innovations—let's inspire and support 👇🏼

Multi-signature wallets can be the most secure way to store your bitcoin… But they’re not for everyone! Learn the pros and cons so you can choose for yourself 🫵 Multi-signature wallets (often just called ”multisig”) are one of the most powerful breakthroughs that came with Bitcoin, as we don’t have to rely on a lawyer to escrow funds anymore between multiple entities. All we need is cryptography and we can cut out another middle-man 😎 Multisig at its core functions similarly to a standard Bitcoin wallet — only the right signature can allow funds to be sent to a different address. However, instead of just needing one signature, now multiple signatures are required to make a valid transaction. This greatly increases the potential security of a wallet, but also comes with some big trade-offs. So what are the pros and cons of multisig for Bitcoiners today? 🤔 Pro - Powerful custody for organizations What once used to require lawyers, complex bank accounts, and legal headaches, now can be achieved through simple cryptography. Organizations can share custody of funds safely and securely with no middle-men or custodians. Pro - Losing a single key doesn’t mean lost funds (usually) For any proper multisig quorum (threshold of signatures needed) losing a single key - or even multiple! - doesn’t lead to lost funds. For instance, a 3-of-5 quorum could lose two keys and still access their Bitcoin. Pro - Harder to spend funds While this may not sound like a pro, the main benefit for individuals who use multisig is that a single key or seed being compromised doesn’t lead to theft (or loss) of funds. In certain threat models this can be a powerful step up in security. Cons - Harder to spend funds Yes, this is both a pro and a con 🤔 While it can sometimes be a good thing to make it harder to spend funds, this added complexity or geographical distance when accessing funds can be problematic for individual users! If you use a multisig with just one person and spread the keys out geographically, things like government lockdowns or tightened border crossings can make it impossible to actually access your bitcoin. Cons - More complex backups While backing up even a standard wallet can be daunting, multisig ratchets up the complexity even more. Not only do you need to properly secure multiple seed phrases, but also additional metadata about the wallet 😱 Even though multisig can help prevent loss of funds, this backup complexity can actually increase the risk of losing your precious sats if you’re not 100% sure how to properly handle multisig backups ❗ Cons - Harder for loved ones to recover An aspect of every Bitcoiner’s setup that often gets overlooked is what happens if you pass away or are incapacitated? Can your spouse/parents/kids access your Bitcoin to actually pass on your generational wealth? Multisig can make it drastically harder to actually recover funds in this worst-case scenario, so it’s vital that you be sure that those you love actually test your recovery process and can recover without any help from you. What’s right for YOU 🫵 While multisig has a lot of pros and cons, deciding if it helps your specific self-custody setup is a personal choice. For more advanced users the added complexity might not be a problem, so the cons are worth the greater security against theft/loss. On the flip-side, many users have improperly backed up their multisig and ended up losing funds they otherwise would have been able to recover. For all the reasons mentioned here we normally recommend single users use single-sig - K.I.S.S. 😉 Want to learn more? This threads already getting long, so keep an eye out for next week’s thread where we’ll cover the ins and outs of actually using multisig, what backups look like, and how a hardware wallet like Passport can help simplify backups. In the meantime, you can read through this fantastic resource by @QnA to better understand multisig wallets 🔗

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Get started with Multisig

Want to see multisig in action? We’ve built out a detailed tutorial for using Passport with Bitcoin Keeper on YouTube, where you can see the process of setting up a new multisig wallet from start to finish 📺 That’s it! Thanks so much for reading, and we hope this helped better explain the pros and cons of multisig, letting you make a well-informed decision on what setup is right for you. For more like this, follow us or visit our website @ foundationdevices.com 🫡