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Block’s Bitcoin Wallet Will Contain a Fingerprint Sensor for Transactions
The payment giant’s new wallet will also be powered by a rechargeable lithium polymer battery and USB-C port.
Payments firm Block (SQ), formerly known as Square, said the bitcoin (BTC) wallet it is building will enable fingerprint sensors for transactions, according to a company blog post on Friday.
- “For transactions that require using the wallet hardware, we want our customers to be able to unlock their wallets securely, but with ease – an unlikely combination that historically has not existed in the market,” the company said in the post.
- The hardware component of the wallet will use a rechargeable lithium polymer battery and USB-C port to power the device.
- The wallet will not have a display as Block said it doesn’t want to create a new interface that customers will need to learn in order to use the wallet.
- Block announced in July that it was moving forward with plans to build a bitcoin hardware wallet.
Read more: Block’s Cash App Launches Feature Allowing Users to Gift Bitcoin
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Aoyon Ashraf
Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. He spent almost a decade at Bloomberg covering equities, commodities and tech. Prior to that, he spent several years on the sellside, financing small-cap companies. Aoyon graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.
