New York, NY, 12 November 2019 – At New York Consensus Invest Summit, Evercoin Inc. today announced Evercoin 2, the “safest hardware wallet”. Evercoin 2 provides a wallet and exchange for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies featuring a hardware wallet the size of a house key powered by YubiKey 5ci, the first implementation of its kind. Prior to this, users wanting hardware security relied on large, difficult to use and not mobile-first first-generation hardware wallets like Ledger and Trezor. Now every compatible YubiKey owner can download a free hardware wallet.
Evercoin provides all of the financial services users expect from a service like Coinbase, but for the first time ever in a mobile wallet, secured by hardware and fully controlled by the user. Evercoin currently supports 20 assets including Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Crypto users aren’t safe. Here are some of the threats we can address with the new combined offering from Evercoin and Yubico:
Hack attacks : hackers can gain access to private keys, the result can be total loss of all assets.
Exchange hacks : crypto exchanges can be hacked or go out of business causing loss of funds.
Key loss : users can lose all of their assets by forgetting private keys, losing paper wallets, exposing keys to bad actors, losing hardware devices. Chainalysis estimates that 2-3 million bitcoins have been lost permanently in this way.
Other user errors : users can input the wrong address when sending transactions
Volatility : volatility of crypto prices can dramatically crash the value of user assets.
ID Theft : hackers can steal a user’s account and identities thus enabling a host of attacks on the user’s accounts and assets.
“Wrench” attacks : attacks involving a physical threat to your person. Phishing Attacks
