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 Yes, there is a chance Proton Wallet is a honeypot.

Let's assume it is one: We are not their target audience. People who know no better already live in a honey pot. An opportunity to expose a taste of freedom tech to 100M+ users, shitcoin-free? That's massive. Most of them won't fall into the rabbit hole, but some of them will. Net positive.

Just like our life paths are all different, our ways to understand bitcoin are too. 
 absolutely, no shitcoin, non-custodial, good documentation for newbies. Its great. 
 any custodial could be a honeypot no? otherwise these days everyone and their mothers are making digital wallets no matter the currency and the service offered... 
 People need to realize that if you're reading this on Nostr, you are absolutely not the target audience. 
 It can be both a honeypot and a net positive.  Better than gmail or hotmail (I assume).  But swiss gov likely has a back door. 
 But it should be said. People should know that proton has been forced to give up info.


Just thought an asterisk should be there.  
 Yes they have to comply with certain government warrants 
 Yes. What info did they give? 
 After a quick search: 

> The Swiss company sells itself on its privacy features, promising to let uses "take control" of their personal data.

> But it had been legally obliged to collect data from an account said to be linked to a "climate activist" arrested by French police, ProtonMail said. 
 Not data, metadata. There is a diference. 
 You're not making sense. Metadata is a category of data, but you seem to be calling it "not data" and suggesting the difference is like, whole different etymological roots or something (incorrect) 
 There is. Metadata is information about a set of data. So no, they are not the same. Hence one is called METAdata and the other data. 
 Chat bot style reply 
 Well fuck then, how about them chat bots motherfucker?! 
 They do be getting good 
 IP address of some activist.  
 But no messages at all? How can you be an activist and not protect your IP address 
 He was using their VPN..... 
 Sorry he was using their email service.  
 💯 this ! 
 Are there really ANY companies that WOULDN'T give customer info to local authorities if ordered to? Please name them. 
 Mullvad? 
 They are incentivised to make this work and do it right. It would allow users who already pay for their subscriptions in BTC to have that subscription automated in house. 
 According to trading activity, #BitcoinETF buyers are still HODLing, There has been no sign of panic yet, so it's likely to take a much larger decline in #Bitcoin before they finally give up. 

A lot of people aren't paying attention

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 Good luck onboarding people via email! 
 Not sure what you mean, lots of people use their products. They have plenty of UI surface to do the onboarding.