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Proton Wallet
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Proton Wallet
@ProtonWallet
A safer way to hold your #Bitcoin. Brought to you by @ProtonPrivacy.
Open-source | Audited | Swiss | E2E encrypted | Self-custodial | Send #BTC via Email
- Today we're launching @ProtonWallet, an open-source, E2E-encrypted, and self-custodial #Bitcoin wallet. With features like Bitcoin via Email, we hope to be a safer and easier way for Bitcoin newcomers to get started. Learn more and get early access: proton.me/wallet
- Proton's origin story is also a #Bitcoin success story. Back in June 2014, @ProtonMail's crowdfunding account was arbitrarily frozen by PayPal, and to circumvent this, we started accepting Bitcoin donations. 1/3
- Proton Wallet is now available for all! We onboarded over 100,000 users during early access and received plenty of positive feedback; thank you. Now, we're making #Bitcoin easily accessible. Anyone can sort, store, send & receive Bitcoin, regardless of experience level.
00:00- Bitcoin is inevitable.
- As you can probably tell, we like Bitcoin. That's why we've written a definitive guide on all things #Bitcoin for newcomers: proton.me/wallet/bitcoin… It's an easy way to learn about developers, miners, nodes, the blocksize wars, Bitcoin vs. #crypto, halvings, the challenges
- when proton was born the traditional financial system tried shutting us down because we received $300k in donations from people who wanted a privacy-oriented internet and then people reached out wanting to donate bitcoin and that's why we're still around 11 years laterShare a piece of lore about yourself
- Inflation is worse than you think. Governments often use the Consumer Price Index to show inflation's impact on daily expenses. They rarely mention monetary inflation linked to excessive money printing for schemes like Fractional Reserve Banking. The only solution is #Bitcoin.
- Don't trust, verify.
- Don't know who needs to hear this but please don't screenshot your portfolio today.
- 1/9 #Bitcoin is great, but we must fight central authorities’ attempts to usurp it in order to keep it great. Proton Wallet aims to keep Bitcoin true to its decentralized roots: in the hands of people, not organizations or institutional funds. Let’s break it down: 🧵 ⬇️
- Bitcoin via Email is an easy way to send & receive BTC with #ProtonWallet. We built this feature specifically to help onboard newcomers, and reduce the risk of sending coins to the wrong wallet address. Here's how it works 🧵⤵️
