Hi guys. Just an update to let you know we haven't been sitting around on our asses doing noting.
Mycelium Entropy - Still no update from the manufacturer since we submitted all the work requests three weeks ago and they started working. Hopefully this means everything is going well on their side, and we'll have the finished assembled units within the next few weeks. At that point, it's just flash, package, and ship. In the mean time, we have finalized SSS split key support in the Entropy device and support for it in our Mycelium wallet, and added some minor things, like being able to generate a new wallet by pressing the button instead of removing and reinserting the device. It doesn't generate a new seed from our entropy source, but there is enough entropy in it to be useful for a few paper wallets.
Mycelium Bitcoincard - We received a whole bunch of finished circuit boards in the office a few weeks ago. Still finalizing the software and design before we get these things out to get laminated, and buttons labeled (we don't want to print button labels before we are sure which ones we should use for what). They look pretty cool so far. Goal is still to finish these some time around 2015 Q1/Q2. For those who may have missed it, these cards have changed drastically since that video we came out with 2 years ago, and although they still use a single bitcoin address (at least in the first versions), there's nothing identifiable in the radio, so, contrary to video claims, no, merchants (or others) won't be able to track you by your radio ID.
Mycelium Wallet - Tons of work has been going on with this one. We hope to get version 2.1 out by early December, and many of those have just been released in beta. These features include:
- Preview of Shamir's Secret Sharing import/cold storage (the 2-of-3 key split that Entropy will use)
- Optimized transaction output selector that omits dust and makes fees smaller on average
- Fix issue that prevented LocalTrader from letting you pick an address due to "too many requests"
- New NFC functions
- Show Grand Total of your active account balance in accounts view
- Customizable fees (you can now use the Bitcoin Core default fee that's 1/10th as small at the old one)
and various other minor bug fixes. If you can't wait to get all the goodies and want to get access to them now, please join our beta program here http://ift.tt/1qHTBua Otherwise we will hopefully get these out to you within a week or two. Besides that, we have also set up and got Tor working on our nodes as a hidden service, in preparation for moving our wallets to that. The progress to total privacy is slow, but definitely moving. One thing that is moving way slower that we had hoped is LocalTrader adoption. For those who don't know, it's basically LocalBitcoins built right into our wallet. The difference is that while LocalBitcoins holds your coins in escrow while you trade, and retains the entire log of your trades and communications, our system trades bitcoins directly wallet to wallet, and keeps all communications encrypted peer to peer, so we don't have access to anything the traders do. We only charge 0.2% per trade to use our service, and if you want to trade through some other channel after you meet, that's fine too. The problem is that the number of listed traders offering to buy or sell is still very low. So, if you wish to trade, or even if you use LocalBitcoins and don't want to lose your profile, we ask that you at least still add yourself as a trader to advertise your location. We're fine if once you get a trade, you point the buyer to your LocalBitcoins account and use that to finish your transaction.
Thanks for your support, and as always feedback, suggestions, and feature requests are always welcome.
Submitted November 21, 2014 at 06:13PM by Rassah http://ift.tt/1Atr2DR