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On the AOPP official site, they ascertain their artefact as:
Even admitting several wallets implemented the protocol, it was Trezor who bent best of the flak.
What Did Trezor Say About AOPP?
Early in the morning, on January 27th, a Coindesk article announcement Trezor adopted AOPP accidentally hit the timeline. The aggregation alike approved to use it for advertising:
The Bitcoin association didn’t like it. Why? Because accouterments wallets are declared to be sovereign. And if you accord an inch, they’ll booty a mile. By the afternoon, Trezor had to accomplish their position bright via Twitter. They said:
Swan Bitcoin’s Guy Swann anon responded, “That makes no sense, how does it do that exactly? This sounds to me as impaired as adage “you will get your abandon back” if you aloof accede with all the dictates that bandy your abandon in the garbage.”
It didn’t advice that the audience that the aggregation that developed AOPP put out seemed to acknowledge an cool bulk of advice on anniversary transaction. Starting by the name and active abode of the bodies accomplishing the transaction:
Samourai Wallet Shows No Mercy
Other wallets showed their discontent. The bodies abaft Zeus, for example, said, “We’d rather nuke our app than abutment article adverse to Bitcoin like AOPP.” Samourai though, they went all-in.
Their appraisal listed three affidavit why their artefact wouldn’t abutment AOPP:
Samourai asked added wallets to amend their AOPP support. Which they did, one by one. And accomplished their bluster with “Users who accept to accomplish use of exchanges in adverse jurisdictions (like Switzerland) can of advance manually assurance a bulletin with their clandestine key, but we will NOT be facilitating this advice in any way application any API.”
What Did We Learn From AOPP?
Bitcoin Magazine summarizes the bearings like this:
In the end, as all the wallets appear they were removing AOPP support, Trezor caved. The aggregation appear a abundant blog post answer its decision. Trezor assured the accessible that the accomplishing “was not a footfall taken due to any alien pressure, authoritative or otherwise.” And concluded:
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All’s able-bodied that ends well?
