Provide clear informations about the wallet change and the depreciation of the web based wallet (and already active scams!)

[zeus86]

Hi Bittensor-Devs,

currently I'm very puzzled about the recent wallet-change, and why there are next to none Informations out there publicly accessible (maybe they are via discord, don't know, but I wouldn't consider discord as an easy accessible public ressource).

Until now i used (and still do) the web-based wallet, accessible at https://wallet.bittensor.com/. For me it works fine (even tough I'd like to see support for the most used hardware wallets out there).

However. Currently the Bittensor mainpage lists in it's headerlinks under https://bittensor.com/wallet states, that the webwallet will become abandoned in about a month and only this new, shiny chrome-based extension with a single digit number of comments and a handful (sub 1k) of users is the only supported wallet from then on.

due to the fact, that TAO recently became a very valuable asset (leaving the usecase itself aside for a moment here), the wallets users own are often worth a little fortune right now, and if i were a scammer, I'd thy exactly this: Try to convince people to use my wallet instead, and try to sell it as official.

I'd be really glad, if the opentensor-foundation would do a little more here to guide users (aside from the primary target audience) to not get pulled off, and make things that are important to all wallet-owners much more available in all prominent places (coinmarketcap/coingecko-links, twitter/x, official website and docs and github at least).

Beside that, i haven't seen yet a repository for the chrome extension wallet here yet. Why is this the case, or did I miss something?

Ah yes, and the dev-docs at https://docs.bittensor.com/ still lists the old wallet in the head-row-links, not the new one. Also the web-based wallet itself does not say anywhere on it's front-page, that it will become obsolete (it this is the case after all...)

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(yes, i know, this is not the "ideal" place to put an issue like this, but it's the next best thing I suppose... I'd really appreciate some more open communication regarding things relevant to all wallet-owners)

[zeus86]

...by the way: just because i opened an issue here i got a bunch spam mails trying to convince users to to to certain website and past their seedphrase and PW there via github-mergerequest- and issue-replies from various projects and users (most likely by highjacked profiles). I think this only further exemplifies the importance to have a proper user-communication like stated above.

[zeus86]

The notifications look like this one below:

Affected sources of those messages I know about yet:

https://github.com/BenWhiteJam/1k-validators-be/pull/1204#issuecomment-1882580034
https://github.com/BenWhiteJam/1k-validators-be/pull/1204#issuecomment-1890599546
https://github.com/BenWhiteJam/1k-validators-be/pull/1204#issuecomment-1890375064
https://github.com/BenWhiteJam/1k-validators-be/pull/1204#issuecomment-1890377043
https://github.com/BenWhiteJam/1k-validators-be/pull/1204#issuecomment-1890378673
https://github.com/BenWhiteJam/1k-validators-be/pull/1204#issuecomment-1890385897
https://github.com/BenWhiteJam/1k-validators-be/pull/1204#issuecomment-1890599546
https://github.com/NippunSharma/ChatterBox/issues/7#issuecomment-1883229410
https://github.com/ssantoshp/Beibo/issues/4#issuecomment-1890379512
https://github.com/ssantoshp/Beibo/issues/4#issuecomment-1890386703
https://github.com/p-ferreira/agent-subnet/issues/3#issuecomment-1890594117

beside the mentioned accounts, they all look identical as in the screenshot. Of course this is an HTML-eMail and the link does not go to the official wallet-URL...
I try to update this comment with further occurences of scam-mails i get via github and report those users accordingly.