Regarding the recent Proton Wallet, I respect their conscious effort to be transparent and open about the tradeoffs / threat model (especially in their recent blog posts; see below).
I just tested out the wallet, great work.
Though not perfect ATM, they seem to be on a good path so far in building a Bitcoin-only wallet to simplify sending and receiving Bitcoin for their 100 million Proton users.
Presently, they appear to use the Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK; see below) as a dependency, with coinjoin and the Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) on their radar. Hopefully, we will see silent payments integrated down the line, too.
Nevertheless, as a Proton user, I look forward to seeing how the Proton Wallet evolves 🔥
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More Reading 📌
- Initial announcement: https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-launch
- The wallet's security model: https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-security-model
- Github repo: https://github.com/ProtonWallet/andromeda
- Potential future dependencies: https://github.com/ProtonWallet/andromeda/commit/211dc5a86f20455cdba99e0a51a37a61ef70577c
As a Proton customer I’m worried that this rush of new features leads to Enshitification. As the business grows investors will want to see returns and we’ve seen so many services turn to shit.
Now, if their wallet included some additional privacy features, that would clearly be welcome. But right now it’s not that exciting to me, especially given the loss of privacy going to public ledger without mixing.
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