Caius Nocturne

What the actual fuck guys

And to release this in 2024 makes this product arguably worse because it means they're ideological diehards instead of just the usual kind of vacuous bandwagon tech idiots

Bitcoin is a child's idea of financial freedom, and I don't want fucking children running my cloud services.

(And ideology aside, attaching shit like this to Proton accounts makes them a juicier target for hackers and phishers and the whole ecosystem is going to be intrinsically less safe. Thanks!)

Amy Castor and David Gerard go into further detail as to why Proton Wallet is stupid, and why Bitcoin doesn't even do what they claims it does:

What Proton is making is very specifically a bitcoin wallet, not any other crypto. Bitcoin does not have privacy. The Feds love dumb crooks using bitcoin because every action on the blockchain is completely traceable forever — once you crack one bitcoin address your suspect touched, you have them nailed. Imagine the value of a list of bitcoin addresses matched to Proton Mail addresses.

The post is not just written in crypto pumper language — it’s specifically from a bitcoin maximalist. These are the ideologically committed original bitcoiners who believe that all other cryptocurrencies are only used by infidels and traitors to the one true light of Satoshi Nakamoto, father of bitcoin, who surely believed precisely whatever they believe.

What the actual fuck guys

And to release this in 2024 makes this product arguably worse because it means they're ideological diehards instead of just the usual kind of vacuous bandwagon tech idiots

Bitcoin is a child's idea of financial freedom, and I don't want fucking children running my cloud services.

(And ideology aside, attaching shit like this to Proton accounts makes them a juicier target for hackers and phishers and the whole ecosystem is going to be intrinsically less safe. Thanks!)

I can't remember who asked me about it, but I am currently looking at Nostr to do a bit of primary research for the next edition of my Twitter/X alternatives list.

It's quite obvious that this is bad from reading the design goals and features but I thought I'd humour myself by trying to actually use the thing so I could see what the community is like. It basically reads like a Bitcoin forum, you have people talking about their projects, stanning the world's coolest dictator, whining about inflation (not inflation being higher than ideal, just inflation at all - see goldbugs) and whatnot. I got a little bit of spice in the form of a reactionary conspiracy nutjob. The client I used recommended I follow Michael Saylor, among others.

Figuring out how to get started is complicated, its hostile to non-technical users, and the global feed is pretty quiet so it's not like it's a particularly socially deleterious entity, it's just a few Bitcoin bros hanging out.

Look, a lot of 'national security' stuff is weird propagandistic bullshit, but even assholes can be absolutely correct some of the time. And the reasons they gave are 100% accurate. (North Korea, cybercriminals, ransomware, thieves and scammers)

Let us not forget - ransomware only exists because of the illicit payment channels that cryptocurrency can offer. If governments completely cut off exchanges, ransomware would be dead overnight.