Square is moving forward with plans to build a bitcoin hardware wallet, executives at the payments company said Thursday.
The company has begun assembling a team to handle the project, said Hardware Lead Jesse Dorogusker in a tweet, emphasizing the product is very much in the drawing-board stage. Nevertheless, he said Square will seek to bring a mobile-friendly, “assisted-self-custody,” wallet to a global audience.
“We have decided to build a hardware wallet and service to make bitcoin custody more mainstream,” he said in the tweet. Square CEO Jack Dorsey followed up: “We’re doing it.”
Square’s status as a mainstream fintech would likely inject new attention into bitcoin custody. It has much wider name recognition than even the best-known hardware builders in the crypto industry. It has carved out a niche in making bitcoin accessible through the Cash app. And Dorsey is himself aligned with the cryptocurrency on philosophical grounds.
Dorogusker did not immediately respond to CoinDesk queries.
Source: Coindesk
