100 participants for a review campaign? I think this will be the biggest review campaign on the forum as far as I know.
I hope that the reviewers will have the opportunity to test the service without paying a subscription, because I see that the price of the service starts at $100 per year. But, I will wait to see the exact conditions of the campaign.
Hi, from the Mixin Safe team. The price shows on the website are meant to be the pricing proposal when product fully launched.
For test, the price is very cheap, starts at $2 per year, and it includes a free transaction to send, so $2 is the minimum cost for a tester.
One thing I really don't like from start is that I have to use my phone number to use Mixin app
Think we already talked about the product in the ANN topic. For the test, I believe you have no need to worry about this. Before the anonymous number feature is fully rollout, you may use some phone number services on the Internet to get a random phone number just for a single SMS. Then you can begin the test, just you know that you may lose the account access because you don't own the random phone number, and if you like the product you can change the number to our Mixin Anonymous Number once it's launched in upcoming months.
I searched quickly about this service.
Personally, I do not like miniscript, and with the limited number of wallets that support this technology, recent ledger miniscript vulnerability
[1], Ledger Recovery
[2], and their price policies
[3], I expect that the number of users for this service will be very few and limited, and thus achieving a return from it will be difficult.
It is true that they avoid a single point of failure, and in theory their service is decentralized and better than Ledger Recovery, but such services will achieve greater success if they are from one of the producers of hardware wallets. In general, we will see future development, especially if P2TR is added.
I honestly don't know but I think it is hard to find 100 BTT account can join to the review campaign, or if I understood it incorrectly.
[1]
https://donjon.ledger.com/lsb/019/[2]
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ledger-recovery-send-your-encrypted-recovery-phrase-to-3rd-parties-entities-5452900[3]
https://safe.mixin.zone/pricingMiniscript is expensive, that's the reason I don't like it. But it's the only standard that all hardware wallets are going to support, at least for now I can find announcements from BitBox02, Blockstream Jade, SeedSigner, and Coldcard have released miniscript demo.
Miniscript is a intermediate language that will translate to Bitcoin native script, so as long as the native script translated to is secure, the wallet should be secure.
Mixin Safe doesn't only support hardware wallets, also software wallets. Because from my opinion, Mixin Safe can already provides great security with Bitcoin Core or Mornin Key as the owner wallet, and I believe more and more software wallets will support Miniscript in the futuer.