Opera Adds Crypto Wallet To Its Desktop Browser, Launches Anti-Chrome Campaign in Europe (venturebeat.com)

Opera has updated its eponymous web browser for the desktop with a crypto-makeover and a number of additional features. From a report: The Norway-headquartered browser maker has also launched a marketing campaign to cash in on the EU regulatory order that requires Google to give Android users in Europe more options to choose their preferred browser. Dubbed 'Reborn 3,' the latest version of Opera for Windows, macOS, and Linux includes a native cryptocurrency wallet, which follows Opera's Android app getting this feature in December. The wallet keys and transactions are synced between the desktop and mobile browsers with the latter also serving as a way for the user to authenticate their identity, the company said. [...] Additionally, Opera is speeding up the free VPN feature, after adding this feature to its Android app last month.

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the angel of death and the crypto hail mary

[Rob Cebollero]

"always two there are"

extremely stretched mixed metaphors aside; although the great die-off of browser species is probably a net good in the long term it's still depressing to see yet another once great and trusted brand morph into a cosplay of its former self. I still have the last presto-powered version of Opera installed for (admittedly misplaced) sentimental reasons - it was my daily driver for years.

Why would anyone use this new chrome-clone when Brave has already beat it to the crypto-MLM punch?

Advertising is not going away; crypto (when it doesn't collapse in on itself due to inevitable development of leverage-cornering cartels) will likely make ads mandatory at best, and impossible to sustain as a revenue model at worst.

Not interested in syncing cryptocurrency keys.

[Edward Nardella]

Any process for syncing cryptocurrency keys will probably use weaker security than the keys themselves and is therefore problematic on that basis alone. Also, no, I don't want to transmit my keys over the internet, I will copy them manually, as everyone handling anything more than pocket change should.