I at least appreciate that the very first header is “Why build Proton Wallet?”.
Uhmm can we got Proton Drive for Linux first please??
I tried transferring from iCloud to the drive and lost a lot of files. Granted I should have been smarter, and cloud to cloud might not be a good idea. I get errors often when trying to save things to it, although often it actually worked, so I don’t know why I get the error.
What the hell is Proton’s direction?
I didn’t really care about Scribe but this is just so off-brand. Just what.
They said in the Reddit post that further down the road they want to implement something like Google wallet or apple pay, that would allow for credit card aliases. I think the Bitcoin solution is the one they chose to build a new platform/foundation but without all the regulation and partnerships hassle of making it for traditional payment systems.
Edit
Imo after reading it, it doesn’t seem that crazy or off-brand anymore (so long as it gets fleshed out to use something not as transactionally-inefficient as bitcoin).
Edit: their related bitcoin guide has made me change my mind somewhat and think it’s a little crazy. I was viewing this as a stepping stone (almost a functional tech demo) towards something more reasonable, but now it doesn’t look like that’s necessarily what they had in mind @_@
Makes sense, a lot of alternatives are sketchy and I think many people don’t realise that Bitcoin transactions are by no means private by default.
What a terrible, stupid, and useless idea.
Cool experiment - But why released an unpolished product? This is a weird trend, like ya’ll went from developing like snails (still waiting on Proton Calendar for iPadOS) to releasing new expansions faster than even the most micro-transaction hungry video game developers. Docs, Scribe (which a lot of AI skeptics are still getting a hang of, deeply appreciated but AI-branding x black box data usage takes some getting used to. Also not a new product, more an expansion for email) and now… a Bitcoin Wallet?
Very cool but since the norm for Google-centered users/digital citizens is a (perhaps illusory) degree of separation of personal and financial organization, having it as part of the Proton Suite instead of a well-integrated but separate service (or for the option to be like Scribe) is a hard pill to swallow (especially since it’s Bitcoin).