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I was thinking about switching to Proton but I’ll probably just stick with Tutanota now.
Proton’s users are probably mostly technical people. They really failed to read the room on this one.
Or they didn’t and social media are overreacting as usual, because hating AI and blockchain is trendy. Bitcoin is super helpful for those who are under the scrutiny of authoritarian regimes. These people are part of their user base. Not everything is about tech bros and buzzwords.
Bitcoin and blockchain have only two use cases:
- Financial speculation
- Fraud and criminal activities
Or maybe just privacy and anonymity, low fees, not being controlled by external entities? You know, the thing it was built for.
Privacy and anonymity with Bitcoin? Are you serious?
Not being controlled by external entities? Bitcoin is controlled by a bunch of whales and various insiders such as Tether, the client development goons and random scammers.
All of them are looking to get some money off the marks. Nothing more, nothing less.
You obviously don’t know what you are talking about. Why are you talking then? This is silly.
Right, everyone who disagrees with me as a fool and knows nothing.
You might disagree with what I am saying, but you can’t deny this is a reasonable take and not mere shitposting or engaging in “hate crimes against the blockchain!”.
This is not about blockchain, silly. You simply don’t know how people use it. It can be very, very valuable tool, especially among people who have to use privacy-oriented services like Proton. The fact that you confidently ignore such use cases tells more than enough about the depth of your knowledge: it is based on hateful social media comments and nothing else.
“Silly”
Very mature comeback. An excellent reflect of the validity of crypto use cases. Couldn’t have done better myself.
If you knew anything about business and industries, you would know full well that cryto/blockchain has been a massive failure in practically every use case other than two I outlined above.
If you did care about “privacy” w.r.t. crypto, you wouldn’t be using bitcoin.
If that’s the case then perhaps they should have implemented Monero (or something similar), which was designed for, and as far as I know, still provides both anonymity and privacy. Neither of those are properties of BTC.
Or they could have not done this since there are many other wallets that can be used without a paid account that can easily be blocked by such a regime.
Seriously, if you live under the scrutiny of an authoritarian regime, please do not use Bitcoin for anything that might get you into trouble. It is neither anonymous nor private.
Bitcoin has much wider adopt which is most likely why it is first. BTC has an average of 600k transactions per day vs XMR which averages about 30k per day. I’d probably make the one that would actually be used the most first as well.
Except they only support the main blockchain for BTC which is really pricey
They could add support for LTC, DOGE, Lightning for BTC, and XMR and they would get a lot more customers
And you’re also forgetting that XMR is a really good choice to support for a pro privacy / anonymity company. Having crypto support without XMR for that kind of products makes little sense
People use BTC everywhere in the world, for example the anti-Putin opposition. Proton is implementing what people need, that’s fairly simple.
BTC is okay, but XMR is a lot better
We need XMR support. Right now we’re just swapping XMR for BTC to pay anonymously
It makes me sick that I am locked into Proton Unlimited at the moment because simplelogin integration is only available through that tier and I have already made tons of aliases with my own custom domain using Pass.
But if I could I would definitely downgrade to a tier that only uses Email, Pass, and SL because they are definitely overinflating and bloating Unlimited with random things at this point instead of fixing and improving things like Drive. If they had supported Monero instead of Bitcoin I would feel different.
