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Bitcoin news and commentTrezor will remove AOPP from Sign & Verify and provide a guide to manually verify addresses.

After careful consideration of recent feedback, we will be removing Address Ownership Proof Protocol (AOPP) in the next Trezor Suite update. The relevant pull request has already been submitted on GitHub.

While you may not have heard of it, AOPP is a way to sign a message proving ownership of a chosen withdrawal address, released in our January update. It works just like Sign & Verify, but created in a specific format needed by Swiss exchanges in order to withdraw assets.

Although this protocol was useful for some of our customers and has no effect on anyone else, it is also in no way essential since it was built on top of an existing tool. Removing it will allow us to return focus to projects and products that will have greater impact on privacy, security and usability combined.

We underestimated how this feature would be received, and we are against the regulations that concern AOPP. Adopting AOPP was a small step toward improving usability for a portion of our customers with restricted access to bitcoin. It was not a step taken due to any external pressure, regulatory or otherwise, and no similar implementations are planned.

As a proudly independent company, our decisions are always made in support of individuals. In this case, AOPP benefits only a small number of customers, while many more customers are concerned that its inclusion amounts to ideological signalling in favor of regulators. This is not and will never be the case.

We staunchly oppose the rollout of regulation that infringes on privacy. It is a flawed system, and we are working to help Bitcoin evolve to a point where it is no longer relevant with privacy-focused features like CoinJoin. In the meantime, we are also looking for solutions that maximize access to bitcoin.

The creep of KYC will only be pushed back with improvements across privacy, security and usability. It is always better to buy bitcoin without KYC, but it needs to be made easier. In the meantime many, if not most people, keep their bitcoin on exchanges, which must change.

Our sole aim was to make withdrawal to self-custody easier for users in countries with strict regulation, but we acknowledge that more harm than good could be done in the end if this were viewed as proactive compliance with regulations we do not agree with.

The question of whether we should support AOPP had been discussed publicly for almost a year with no opposition. We welcome public scrutiny of projects we are considering for implementation and the valuable feedback this process generates.

Our company operates with maximum transparency and we did not expect this feature to be controversial. We encourage you to use our public channels like GitHub in future to discuss new features which are being considered and worked on, ahead of their release.

We are currently working on much more exciting features that will cut off regulatory overreach at the source, to undermine surveillance in a way that would make exchanges collecting address proof all but redundant. Make sure to weigh in on that and other features to help Bitcoin become even more open and accessible, and remember to sign up for Early Access to test new features a week ahead of official release!

Our February Trezor Suite release will remove all code related to AOPP. Everything AOPP did can still be done using Sign & Verify alone. We will soon publish a guide on how to manually verify an address for exchange withdrawals for customers who need it. The signing process is also covered in our recent blog on how to prove ownership of your keys.

A decision on AOPP was originally published in Trezor Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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