Quite apart from whether the concept can succeed after having failed a number of well-funded and well-publicised times—

I open https://shtein.me/api/joke in a normal-enough browser (Firefox Nightly with Enhanced Tracking Protection and uBlock Origin). After loading its 2.3MB response (no useful HTML, just a huge inlined JS blob, and served without transfer compression), it asks me to select a wallet. There are two choices.

I select “Injected” and press “Connect wallet” (ugh, why did it require me to click three times instead of just one!?). Nothing discernible happens. No errors or network activity in the dev tools.

I select “Coinbase Wallet” and press “Connect wallet”. It opens a popup window, <https://keys.coinbase.com/connect?sdkName=%40coinbase%2Fwall...>. The TLS connection fails, PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR. Operating on a hunch, I discover it’s blocked in India:

  $ curl keys.coinbase.com
  The website has been blocked as per order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000.

(coinbase.com and www.coinbase.com are similarly affected.)

Not sure quite what to make of that, given that https://www.coinbase.com/en-in/blog/coinbase-launches-in-ind... sounds (from the snippet exposed in a search engine) like Coinbase started fully operating in India five weeks ago.

Can’t say it leaves a positive impression.

▲ ValdikSS 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

>Nothing discernible happens. No errors or network activity in the dev tools.

I guess it expects any 'WEB3' browser extension to be installed. Anything that supports Ethereum should work: Metamask, Enkrypt, Rainbow, …

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chrismorgan 2 days ago | parent [-]

I don’t know if “Injected” is the name of some service, or a description of what is to happen (in which case it’s lousy wording). Whatever it is, the failure mode is clearly atrocious. I hope that’s avoidable.

	▲	inigyou a day ago \| parent [-]
		It's lousy wording. It means a crypto wallet extension that makes its API available to every page natively, as opposed to a web wallet that works by redirecting the user to a different page.

▲ morty28 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is all Firefox's implementation of the client. In the dropdown it shows wallets that it sees as available. I was able to test with coinbase wallet, for you it seems like coimbase alltogether is blocked, yes, but also, for example when I install Metamask extenaion - it becomes available as an option, so you can, in theory use whatever crypto wallet is available in your country. But yeah, as the top comment says - the legality of the whol thing is questinable.

	▲	chrismorgan 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> This is all Firefox's implementation of the client. Nothing to do with Firefox, it’s just the browser rendering the page.

▲ happyPersonR 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Good point… if your country doesn’t allow the infra behind the gateway, then the gateway won’t work.