If this still requires you to use an email address, I would not use it. View quoted note →
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good point
It’s not like it requires you to use its email. It’s just a hot, non-custodial wallet. You still need to keep your seed phrase safe. It’s just like the bitcoin on chain with email for easy receiving bitcoin. It’s an extra feature it you already use Proton products like email.
Yes and then your email and BTC are connected. Not good for privacy. It’s just „convenient“, there are good self-custody wallets out there that don’t ask for any personal information.
Do you actively use proton?
Yup
They provide two wallets when you set up. One that can be paid by sending to your proton mail, and your main one is separate.
When you click around, you see a notice telling you that this was done for privacy reasons.
I still suspect that people will intermix their coins between these wallets and I don't think the point is clear enough to prevent this. Which of course would contaminate both wallets.
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maybe tuta.io it's even better
Thanks for this update. I agree with you.
No. You don’t understand. There is no connection between your BTC received and email. It’s for those who want to conveniently send and receive BTC with proton email. When you receive it via email, it is received to a bitcoin address. Proton can’t know associate your email and bitcoin address. In addition, addresses receiving bitcoin are not reused.
And proton doesn’t ask you for personal information. It’s just a hot, non-custodial Bitcoin wallet with the ability to send and receive bitcoin via email between proton users.
I'm all for ease of adoption. I understand the privacy concerns, but I think making Bitcoin easy to use for normies is a good thing.
Who cares their wallet... As always with Proton, a lot of promises... They should better fix ProtonDrive and develop for Linux
Are you working at Proton? Is it open source?
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No. I don’t work for them and I don’t plan to use it for savings but for small stacks like <0.05 BTC to refill my lightning wallets.
Clearly what you are asking is a way of saying you don’t study it but FUDding it. It’s open source. You could audit the code yourself.
And quite frankly you could play around with it as transaction fee is low.
Or you could’ve just watched @BTCsessions tutorials.
What the commenter is referring to is accounts not wallets. It’s like you could have different wallets using account index (default is 0) from the same seed. When you create account, you could have receive via email enabled or not. Nothing fishy here.
You could create a wallet, have different accounts. You could also import the seed on Sparrow Wallet and see the transactions from different accounts.
All and all, you could’ve just tested it before fudding.
I was not fudding as I said „If it still requires…“
All good, thank you