{"id":18609,"date":"2020-06-15T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe66100426c3"},"modified":"2025-01-27T20:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:26:29","slug":"emphasizing-user-friendliness-with-sovereignty-casa-launches-free-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/emphasizing-user-friendliness-with-sovereignty-casa-launches-free-wallet","title":{"rendered":"Emphasizing User Friendliness With Sovereignty, Casa Launches Free Wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today, Bitcoin custody solution provider Casa has launched a free wallet service aimed at new users. This app provides a retooled version of the basic wallet it offers its members, designed to be simple to use but without all of the premium services included in Casa\u2019s more advanced products.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited about launching a free and simple bitcoin wallet that anyone can use,\u201d said Nick Neuman, Casa\u2019s CEO, in a statement shared with Bitcoin Magazine<\/em>. \u201cMore people are turning to Bitcoin as a long-term investment, but they may not know how to store it safely\u2026 We want to offer this simple wallet for beginners for free, so they can start their Bitcoin journey safely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The free wallet service is provided through the Casa Keymaster app, available on iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a>. It\u2019s designed for beginner Bitcoiners with some ease of use features and basic instructions around private key management, but also includes some of the features Casa offers to its more experienced members. It\u2019s built on the company\u2019s Keymaster technology, which undergirds its multisignature, membership-level product as well, and it can be accessed without the sharing of any personal info aside from a first name and email, which can be pseudonymous.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no location tracking, no data tracking and no invasive third-party analytics: users simply sign up with an email and an alias to start improving their Bitcoin security immediately,\u201d according to a press release.<\/p>\n

In the release, Casa explained that the wallet is also seedless by default, meaning that users are not responsible for recording their own seed recovery phrases \u2014 the lists of words that are generated by bitcoin wallets and allow them to recover any funds stored on chain in case something happens to their wallets, typically recorded on pieces of paper by the users.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Casa Wallet is seedless, meaning users don\u2019t have to worry about securing a paper seed phrase, which is one of the largest friction points for new Bitcoiners,\u201d per the release. \u201cCasa has created a new secure backup mechanism that stores an encrypted version of the key in the user\u2019s cloud storage \u2014 but the decrypted key is only ever accessible on the user\u2019s phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a flagship multisig wallet product designed by Bitcoin security advocate Jameson Lopp<\/a>, Casa positions itself as one of the premium self-custody management providers in the Bitcoin space. This latest free and newbie-friendly offering may be an ideal onramp for those who are just entering Bitcoin but want to start their journey in a way that leads to ultimate sovereignty, security and privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new free wallet service from Casa is built on its premium security technology while offering private key management education and encrypted recovery phrase storage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2705,"featured_media":9240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[453,2279,1983,163],"class_list":{"0":"post-18609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technical","8":"tag-casa","9":"tag-jameson-lopp","10":"tag-recovery-seed","11":"tag-wallets"},"author_data":{"id":2705,"name":"Peter Chawaga","nicename":"peter-chawaga","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/peterc-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/combining-user-friendliness-and-sovereignty-casa-launches-free-wallet.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2705"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}