Distrust or doubts towards Proton are a recurrent theme on this forum, but I don’t see the point of uttering them again in a unconvincing manner in this very thread, under an official thanking message.
But since it has become the subject…
Proton mainstreamness comes with a price; don’t expect anything radical from Proton.
I do trust Proton… up to a point, which is fine. Also, maybe some people would benefit from watching this recent video from Privacy Guides.
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Maybe it’s Proton’s mainstreamness, but I am not convinced they had to choose one of the Big Four. Perhaps, if they really wanted, they could have chosen another auditor, like BDO, but they’d probably lose some benefits, or they simply didn’t want to take the risk associated with a change of auditor.
That being said, I cannot judge, and cannot say if it’s more strategy-driven or more prestige-driven.
However, to relativise the issue between auditors and Monero, I’ll point out that a firm like BDO – part of the ‘Next Ten’ auditors, maybe even the fifth globally, so the first of the Next Ten – seems to accept clients trading with Monero, for instance Bity.
Bity SA (bity.com) owns a network of no-KYC Monero ATMs in Switzerland, and has been audited by BDO.