Accessible Bitcoin cold storage
Finally, a Bitcoin cold storage wallet that doesn’t require sight. From seed to spend, IcyWallet aims to be the simplest and most secure Bitcoin cold storage solution—with a total emphasis on accessibility. Just plug in headphones and a keyboard, or a refreshable braille display, and get going.
- 100% free and open source
- Boots directly into the wallet app with functioning audio and braille support (via BRLTTY)
- All interactions designed for the best possible accessible experience
- Generates hierarchical deterministic wallets with mnemonic seeds for safe backup
- Uses the proven and reliable BitcoinJS library
We’re using Keybase Teams for project communication. Join the IcyWallet team if you’d like to chat!
Development is underway and you can view the master branch commits for the latest activity. The master branch is the active development branch, which should should not be used with coins (but is ideal for testing). There is no stable release at this time.
| Item | Status | Notes | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallet generation | Complete | Private key generated and stored | 2017-11-21 |
| Mnemonic backup seed process | 90% | Wrapping up confirmation process | 2017-11-21 |
| Speech synthesis process | Complete | Combined with localization | 2017-11-25 |
| Language localization process | Complete | Combined with speech synthesis | 2017-11-25 |
| Config: Language | 10% | 2017-11-26 | |
| Config: Voice speed | 10% | 2017-11-26 | |
| Config: Refreshable braille display model | Pending | ||
| Fee estimation | Pending | ||
| Data movement process | Pending | ||
| Transaction signing | Pending | ||
| Upgrade process | Pending |
- This Developer Is Making The First Bitcoin Wallet For The Blind, International Business Times, 11/21/2017
- Creating the World's First Bitcoin Wallet for the Blind, Bitcoinist, 11/25/2017
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
IcyWallet is a Pug project, by Adam Newbold.