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Introducing Proton Wallet – a safer way to hold Bitcoin "Our long-term vision is for Proton Wallet to be a digital wallet that gives you full control of your digital assets. While the type of assets that you can hold in Proton Wallet may evolve over time as we add more capabilities in response to community demand, Proton Wallet is starting as a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet."
Wow, I use proton services for a while now for mail, passwords and data sharing. I didn‘t know that they are going for a bitcoin wallet. Cool 😎
B i t c o i n V i a E - M a i l 🔥 Proton leading the way: "By leveraging Proton’s existing encryption key management infrastructure that powers the end-to-end encrypted services that we use to support over 100 million accounts today, sending and receiving Bitcoin is now as easy as sending and receiving email. As long as both the sender and recipient have a Proton Wallet, you only need the recipient’s email address to send them Bitcoin."
I wondered how long it would be!! Hopefully lightning payments will be next up!
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REH 1 year ago
Yoooo this is huge!!! Love it!!
That really depends on how one defines safety I guess. I only consider airgapped hardware to be "safe" for my main stack. Saftey is quite relative to context. This would be "safe" for a small amount for me, but I certainly wouldn't use some software only solution for a large amount. Still cool regardless. Just made me think.
they also accept bitcoin as money, in their checkouts, it’s a pretty revolutionary idea @jack you should try it out maybe.
I liked what I saw in encrypted email. And I’m already using it! As for the wallet, I’m on the waiting list, because I don’t have an invitation to transfer my credits there, @jack!
Yeah, two completely different things, which was my point. Comparing them and calling this safer is simply wrong. Getting your seed from a screen on an internet connected device is never going to be as safe as not. The added complexity IS the security. They should stay in their lane of hot wallets and not pretend that they are an alternative to using offline solutions. It would be different if they said safer than other hot wallets. But they explicitly compare to hardware here. Someone will eventually get rekt.
> that dangerous moment has always stayed in our minds, and we still keep a proportion of Proton’s financial reserves in Bitcoin.
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Rob 1 year ago
Honeypot intensifies
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Nomad 1 year ago
If Proton has time to work on Bitcoin, they should first start accepting Lightning payments. Why develop a Bitcoin wallet, if you cannot run a Lightning node?!!
Lightning is a layer two that most people new to BTC don’t understand. Why not first work with something people are more familiar with?
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Kato Sebo 1 year ago
Wow, that's neat. Need to try. I love Proton and their products. The only Drive that I don't like tho. But currently I just use Telegram wallet tbh and Ledger.
Entendo seu ponto, mas os serviços deles são pagos né, eles ganham com assinaturas. Se prestarem um serviço ruim ou não confiável, eles quebram. No mundo, a gente sempre está confiando em alguém. O que podemos fazer é minimizar os riscos, logo concordo com você, em não centralizar todas as atividades em um único lugar, nesse caso uma única empresa. Mas ter opções sempre é bom, quanto mais melhor, pois somos diferentes e temos gostos e necessidades diferentes.
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yamine 1 year ago
Let me send you an invite for your loyalty