Make buying crypto throigh Proton Wallet easier
It is great that Proton provides some options to purchase Bitcoin directly into Proton Wallet, but the user experience to do this is a nightmare if you use Proton tools to do it. I use Proton VPN and Proton Pass email aliases. I registered on Ramp using a Proton Pass email alias and somehow got my account suspended. I appealed to Ramp because I thought it might be a KYC issue, but a human being rejected my appeal and permanently banned my account. This happened in my very first attempt to purchase any Bitcoin through Ramp. The support agent could not tell me why I was suspended or banned; it was confidential and I was blocked from asking further questions. Banxa worked once for me, but recently when I try to purchase Bitcoin, it always has a server error and tells me try again later. Which I do, unsuccessfully. Lately I am resorting to buying crypto on other exchanges where I already transact, and then send the crypto from the other exchange into my Proton Wallet. This incurs more fees for me to transfer the Bitcoin around, instead of buying it in one place and storing it immediately in my Proton Wallet. The one time Banxa worked for me, it was very smooth. But now I simply cannot purchase Bitcoin through Proton Wallet because the partner exchanges make it incredibly difficult to do so with Proton tools.
I am not sure what the right answer is here, but Proton Wallet needs to make the crypto onboarding experience better if it is going to have any chance with non-tech people. I subscribe to a Proton plan for my family, who are not tech people. They have adopted other Proton tools and services seamlessly, but I would be intimidated to introduce them to Proton Wallet because of this difficulty in purchasing crypto through Proton Wallet.
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Mac commented
I seem to be unable to buy crypto through either of Proton Wallet's platform partners -- both claim my cards are ineligible for crypto purchases. PW may have to partner with more platforms to be viable for all potential users.