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Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton (proton.me)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Aye, given their focus on privacy it's not a huge surprise. Probably something that got asked for a lot in surveys.

Now if they started shilling ProtonCoin or something...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bitcoin is not private. Monero is the privacy coin.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Both are useless as payment in the real world at any meaningful scale ATM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I pay for my VPS and domain with Monero. It will never be as big as Visa, but it doesn't have to be - it has its niche.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meh. Yes and no. There's actually quite a few places that accept Bitcoin at this point. Alternatively, you can use it to buy gift cards for many different retailers.

But yeah, you usually can't walk up to the checkout counter and tap your card, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not unfortunate. It's not accepted as currency because it does none of the things currency is for.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Such as...?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holding a consistent value.

Volatility in a currency makes it completely and utterly useless.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fiat doesn't do that either. Ever heard of inflation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Moderate, relatively steady growth is not remotely comparable to routine wild fluctuations.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The unfortunate result of speculative investors trying to ride the next wave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The inherent nature of a currency not managed intelligently by a competent government.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Haha, nah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A LLM to write emails and a crypto wallet were among the least voted/requested features on their last big survey and yet barely a month after the survey was done, they've released both things.

There's still no calendar widget on Android and iOS and other very basic things that have been widely requested for years now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have a calendar widget on my Samsung S22.