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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 2029 days ago
Thanks for your further reply! :)

> It's just they experience has shown that helping out this way for wallet development (or even more generically software development) works better.

Does it really work better from the perspective of a user though?

Because as a user I am now sitting in front of 24 websites which look equally "meh" in terms of trustworthiness (fancy design and huge claims), each of them trying to get me to hand out money to their software (that's what a wallet is about!), and almost all of them seemingly being for-profit companies which avoid listing their address.

A single 1 well-known website (EDIT: I meant wallet, not website) of a non-profit would "work better" for me as a user in terms of trusting my choice to keep my money safe. (If I had any, not buying ETH in this situation :)

> To add, they did start out providing the software as you say. After a certain point though, their efforts were outpaced by community effort or business opportunities arising in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Do you notice that you're actually arguing in favor of my point? :)

You say that their efforts were "outpaced", i.e. they failed. That's not a good thing to yield for $ 18 M :(

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How does being a non-profit make their product more secure?