THELOGICALINDIAN - Popular Bitcoin wallet Bitgo has appear an affiliation with Ledger accouterments wallets for the Nano S and Blue models
Also read: Bitgo provides an amend accompanying to the Bitfinex breach
The Partnership
“We are aflame to advertise a affiliation with Ledger to amalgamate the allowances of Bitgo’s multisignature action wallet with Ledger’s hardware-based key storage”, announced Mike Belshe, Bitgo co-founder, and CEO. He additionally acclaimed that:
Bitgo wallets accept some of the best avant-garde appearance accessible for multisignature 
addresses, which advice assure adjoin annexation by acute assorted clandestine keys to assurance anniversary approachable transaction. Keeping one of the clandestine keys on a abstracted accessory was not accessible afore this integration.
Bitgo wallet users can now account from the added aegis of a accouterments accessory while still adequate online wallet appearance which standalone Ledger wallets do not offer, including burning payments, amount limits, abode whitelists and blacklists, as able-bodied as webhooks.
How It Works
By abutting a Ledger accessory to a Bitgo account, a new Bitgo wallet can be created application a multisignature abode to breach the clandestine keys amid the new wallet and the Ledger
device.
While the new wallet appears on the Bitgo’s user interface aloof like any added wallet in a Bitgo account, sending money from this wallet requires the Ledger accessory to affirm the transaction.
The absolute Ledger wallet appliance is unaffected, but a firmware or Bitcoin wallet app advancement may be appropriate for the accessory itself in adjustment to use this feature.
Bitgo does not allegation bureaucracy or account fees. However, there is a 0.10% fee per approachable transaction.
Simple Setup
Bitcoin.com followed the bureaucracy instructions provided by Bitgo for the Ledger Nano S. It took about 15 account to advancement the firmware, but already upgraded, the 
integration alone took about a minute. For the Ledger Blue, no firmware advancement is appropriate but the Bitcoin wallet app may charge to be updated, according to Bitgo’s bureaucracy instructions.
To accredit the integration:
Once the wallet is set up, sending money from it requires the aforementioned Ledger accessory to affirm the transactions.
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