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Fuck yeah! They are serious about it!
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."
I did NOT expect this. Very cool.
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 😎
Let me send you an invite for your loyalty
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🔥 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."
just stop at Bitcoin Andy!
Safer compared to what?
I assume this means safer than custodial
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.
"While offline hardware wallets can theoretically be more secure, the associated expense and increased complexity limits their use cases, so Proton Wallet aims to be the most secure, always-accessible Bitcoin wallet."
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.
I wondered how long it would be!! Hopefully lightning payments will be next up!
Wow nice
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Is it KYC or not?
Yoooo this is huge!!! Love it!!
Anyone have an invite to jump the wait list?
wow I would have expected more shutcoinery from a company like proton. Thats really cool instead!
Interesting. Been using other Proton apps
Do you recommend Proton Wallet?
Extra nice for those that pay for proton with btc...
they also accept bitcoin as money, in their checkouts, it’s a pretty revolutionary idea nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m 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, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m!
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> that dangerous moment has always stayed in our minds, and we still keep a proportion of Proton’s financial reserves in Bitcoin.
Future is bright
Honeypot intensifies
Awesome 🧡
And the official account even said "No shitcoins"!
Can you DM me an invite link please?
Tons of buzz around this. Really looking forward to trying it.
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?!!
sending with emails? what about privacy?
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Is it a web app?
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.
Cool... Bitcoin only too and they speak out against PayPal Mafia.
Anyone got a invite? 😃
On proton unlim already but not on visionary. Not sure if I'll make the leap to try it out 🤔
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Hi lovies! Do you have a visionary or lifetime proton account and are open to inviting me?
#asknostr
Thanks for sharing, Jack.