I was just looking at flash drives today on Amazon, and I saw a few that had a fingerprint scanner on them and I thought that was pretty cool, as I'd never seen anything like that before. Seems like a great way to keep a flash drive or anything else fairly safe. Maybe I'm just being naive here?
Depends on the sensor and settings used, for numbers refer to my post above.
The only one that comes to my mind is
Blockstream Green Wallet, but it still lacks many other important features.
Samourai Wallet has many advanced features, but you can't unlock it with your fingerprint.
Huh. I'll have to check those out. I don't need another wallet, as I have such a trivial amount of crypto that it wouldn't even faze me if all of it got stolen, but I very much like the concept of hardware wallets and have two so far (only one of which has any coins on it). Thanks for the info.
Both of those are software wallets.
Further wallets that come to mind are
Copay, which uses an optional fingerprint lock to encrypt your wallet,
and I would assume that all branded wallets that fork from copay offer the same (bitcoin.com runs a branded version of copay, eg).
Then there's also
MyCelium, which IIRC has a feature like that as well, but I'm not 100% sure on that and do not use that one, so cannot confirm.
Never heard any bitcoin wallet that asking for fingerprint. For me, it's not safe because giving fingerprint is just like giving your identity.
I didn't dig into the way CoPay handles your fingerprint, but it's open source, so you should be able to find out whether the fingerprint information is stored locally on your device, or shared and stored on any of BitPay's servers.
Edit:
Both of those are software wallets.
Yeah, that's what I thought but I wasn't completely sure. I do think it'd be cool if there was a hardware wallet with fingerprint authentication, and I'll bet one will come along eventually.
What comes to mind are wallets like
Ledger's Blue and
Ellipal (or their new
Titan).
Both of them are very similar to smartphones in design, and I agree that it's only a question of time before someone takes that step and adds a fingerprint sensor in one of those, same as it happened for smartphones.
