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1. silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 01:30:06 JST silverpill

   https://kosmos.social/users/Alby/statuses/109744490749814521

   This looks a lot like Mitra, even the tipping button is located in the same place...

   >what more do you need

   I need this to work with Monero instead of LN.

   Browser wallet is a just small piece of software but its absence literally holds back the entire #Monero ecosystem. I would be first to integrate it, not only because it provides better UX for payments, but also because privacy-friendly key manager is necessary for other things like portable accounts in Fediverse.

   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 02:03:10 JST silverpill

     in reply to

     • node

     @node I don't know, maybe there are technical issues that prevent developers from working on it.
     But more likely is that people just don't understand the value of such thing. Ethereum's MetaMask had existed for many years and other smart contract platforms quickly developed similar wallets. But bitcoiners only recently started to catch up with their Alby wallet. Monero is lagging behind because its community is much smaller

     If no one creates a web wallet for Monero, I will probably start working on it myself soon

   • node (node@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 02:03:11 JST node

     in reply to
     @silverpill what's the story with browser wallet for monero? if it's so critical to monero adoption, why haven't the devs been working on it?
   • silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 03:07:44 JST silverpill

     in reply to

     • bumblefudge

     @by_caballero Yes, I know about snaps, but over the past few years I became increasingly disappointed about MetaMask. Today I rarely use it myself, and try to warn other people about its flaws:

     - MetaMask covertly switched its license to proprietary. There was no announcement and almost no one in the community noticed that. I learned about that only long time after the fact.
     - It contains trackers, and it's not possible to disable them completely. If you opt out of Metametrics, the Sentry tracker remains active and constantly sends data to their servers.
     - Even if you block trackers, MetaMask leaks a lot of sensitive information. During its normal functioning it makes requests to 3-5 domains belonging to different organizations. Each request contains unique browser extension ID and reveals your IP address if you don't use Tor. This information can be linked to on-chain activity.
     - When MetaMask updates token balances, it makes single JSON-RPC request containing all your account addresses. So the API provider can link your different addresses together, even if you remove/block every other leak. This defeats all attempts to hide links between accounts with TornadoCash or Aztec.

     I simply can't recommend such tool to my users, many of whom are concerned about online privacy. There needs to be an alternative.

   • bumblefudge (by_caballero@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 03:07:49 JST bumblefudge

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     @silverpill have you given any thought to making a monero snap for metamask rather than rolling your own browser extension? they even have a grants program, although that might be flooded with competition at the moment