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It's been speculated that they are developing a consumer-oriented hardware bitcoin wallet/node.

This would indeed be very lucrative, as it is the missing component for adoption, IMO. I wonder why it's taken them 3 years though.

There's been Trezor for some time now: https://www.bitcointrezor.com/

Projects like these are great, but they won't drive adoption per se.

Hardware is hard; crypto is hard. Most people seem to think the Trezor's usability leaves a lot to be desired.

According to CrunchBase [1]:

> 21 Inc is a Bitcoin mining pool. It is working on specially designed chips that will drive new equipment specifically aimed at doing this more efficiently

Though I guess that description is outdated now. Go figure. Perhaps they are randomly pivoting bitcoin stuff until something sticks?

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/21e6

I didn't know either. It looks like they're a company who want to 'take bitcoin mainstream'

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/10/secretive-bitcoin-sta...