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Bruce B. Dec 8, 2022
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Tony Fadell, a career Silicon Valley executive known as the “Father of the iPod”, unveiled his latest project - a hardware wallet used to store cryptocurrency offline.

Fadell spent almost a decade at Apple under Steve Jobs, where he oversaw the design of the portable music player, and later helped create the company's best-known device, the iPhone.

After quitting Apple in 2008, he launched Nest Labs, a smart home-devices company. Nest was later acquired by tech giant Google for $3.2 billion.

Now Fadell has teamed up with Ledger, the French technology firm, to design a new offline cryptocurrency wallet.

The recent collapse of crypto exchange FTX, which has seen more than $1 billion of customer’s funds vanish, prompted an unprecedented surge in demand for offline, or "self-custody", services such as Ledger.

Previous models released by Ledger, such as the Nano S, have been shaped like USB memory sticks.

Fadell's new design, the Ledger Stax, is a credit-card sized device featuring a curved spine and electronic-ink display.

"All of the secure hardware up to this point was like all the MP3 players before the iPod, and it was time for an iPod," said Ian Rogers, chief experience officer at Ledger.

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Bruce B. Dec 7, 2022
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Cannabis dispensaries across the U.S. are rushing to find alternative ways for customers to pay after networks that supported a popular workaround to the banking system began to shut down.

Cashless ATMs, also called “point of banking” systems, allowed cannabis buyers to use a bank card instead of cash. The method had evolved to get around the fact that credit-card companies and banks don’t want involvement in still federally illegal marijuana transactions.

Now the system is faltering because some of the largest processors of ATM transactions, have turned off the ability of processors to use their service.

Small dispensaries in Arizona, California and Massachusetts have all experienced outages, according to employees who were recommending that customers use cash.

Large dispensary chains of multi-state operators were also said to be affected.

Customers’ preference for the convenience of cashless-ATM-style systems had generated hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for little-known payment processors.

The crackdown on cashless ATMs comes exactly a year after Visa had said it was “aware of a scheme” involving cashless ATMs and that such transactions are prohibited on its network. While there are alternative payment technologies that are more compliant, some dispensaries see them as burdensome, and clunky for customers.

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