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

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For a non-technical user bitcoin is always an exercise in separating signal from noise. What are your thoughts on this?

Great to read your initial thoughts on it.

I wasn't expecting this at all from Proton, so very happy. They ship great products.

I was permanently loocked out of my protonmail account a few years ago after using tor over vpn. They had som alogo that flagged me. Fuck them and their security and privacy theater!

Can I get an invite?

Sure, happy to send you an invite. Check DMs.

🙏

x 2 ? I’m on the waiting list. 🤞🏻🙏🏻

i’d love an invite too if you got any extras lying around 🙏

XMR integration and a easy swap between BTC and XMR would be cool to have stronger privacy if needed. So you can still hodl your favorite store of value but benefit from strong transaction privacy in a user friendly way.

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.

I'm encouraged by your assessment. Not only because it seems an honest assessment, but also because you're one of the few people who weren't a dick about it's limitations etc.

Beyond that, it's just another wait list...

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Thank you for trying out Proton Wallet and sharing the resources to our announcement and security model.

We really appreciate feedback like this.

Mmm