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Re: Opera now lets US users buy crypto with Apple Pay or debit card
by
squatter
on 18/03/2020, 20:41:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by tomahawk9 (1)
Is the built-in wallet open source? If not then avoid using it. Remember what Andreas Antonopoulos always says: "not your keys, not your bitcoins".

Users do control their own keys with the Opera wallet.

The Opera browser is partially open sourced since it's Chrome-based, but most of the UI and presumably the cryptocurrency wallet are not.

I would especially avoid the Android version. The Android wallet relies on the Android keystore system, which has been broken several times:
Android KeyStore crypto key vulnerability affects 86 percent of Android devices
Android KeyStore Encryption Scheme Broken, Researchers Say