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I at least appreciate that the very first header is "Why build Proton Wallet?".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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).