BitPay has announced the first bitcoin wallet with Intel hardware security integration, assuring users their data is protected even if their application code or associated computer is compromised. The Intel Software Guard extensions integration provides hardware-level protection for the wallet’s transaction signing, private key generation and private keys.

BitPay has integrated its Copay wallet with the Intel Software Guard extensions and Intel identity protection technology with protected transaction display security technologies. Users can execute an application's most security-sensitive operations using the new, 7th Generation Intel Core processors.

"Providing user-friendly financial security is one of bitcoin's biggest opportunities, and Intel's silicon-based security helps us move bitcoin closer to the mainstream," said Stephen Pair, BitPay CEO. "We look forward to releasing this to Copay users in the coming months."

Copay provides a safer alternative to bitcoin account services, which are vulnerable to security breaches.

"The decentralized trust which blockchain technology enables has the potential to transform interactions over the Internet, starting with bitcoin," said Rick Echevarria, vice president of software and services group, and general manager of the platforms security division at Intel. "With blockchain technology and our security and computing assets, Intel hopes to bring decentralized trust to a wide array of asset exchanges over the Internet."