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the news is a hoax. "It should be glaringly obvious why they are specifically not calling it a cryptocurrency wallet, and why they attempted to quiet rumours of such claims back in December. Security: Galaxy S10 is built with defense-grade Samsung Knox, as well as a secure storage backed by hardware, which houses your private keys for blockchain-enabled mobile services.

Samsung Knox is not a cryptocurrency wallet. Don't spend your hard earned money for this feature. Personally, I think the wireless charging of other Qi devices would prove more useful than "Samsung Knox"."


Cryptocurrency wallets are simple pieces of software. Housing the keys is the hardest part - what's on top of that is just a bit of code to derive addresses from that key, query for balances on a blockchain node, send/receive calls etc. If that part won't be added by Samsung themselves it'll certainly aid in development of full crypto wallet apps.


you surly never tried to write your own mobile wallet. Try to make it for grin/zcash, with "what's on top of that is just a bit of code" lol


I didn't say that code couldn't be copied from existing projects on GitHub


Sure it isn't a crypto-wallet per se, but getting a phone with a dedicated key storage chip like Apple T2, Google Titan M or Samsung Knox seems like a decent security choice worth spending money on.


True, but Knox is from 2013. No need to buy a new phone to get it.


Sounds like this is about as much of a cryptocurrency wallet as a TPM is in an x86 machine...


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