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Protonmail has a BTC wallet?!

Yup it's Bitcoin-only Layer-1-only tied to your email.

So now all I need is your email and I can see all your transactions. They claim it makes a new address, but this is propaganda if the input/outputs are being used together. This is the worst of both email and Bitcoin privacy.

You shouldn't be using a web app in a browser for your L1 Bitcoin, it should be in a local wallet like Electrum. Just like their email, you don't know what's going on in the cloud. They write "not your keys, not your coins", but they don't even let you use your own PGP key for email.

Further, they called everything else other than Bitcoin a shitcoin. Even if we ignore Monero, they still don't even accept lightning for their vpn/email. Lightning is far better at privacy than L1, and more economical.

This shows they are basically a honeypot propaganda outlet, with a World Economic Forum rep on their board, that hands over thousands of emails a year. Now they can add bitcoin transactions to give context to those compromised emails.

Once again, I urge you to consider self-hosting your email. Any small VPS is barely more money than proton's paid plans, and we have cheap plans to set it up for you if you're uninterested in reading technical docs, https://simplifiedprivacy.com/email-cloud-combo/index.html

Stop living in web apps. You can really be self-sovereign.
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Nëïgsëndöïg · 87w
I use Proton for purposes not for crypto, and I can't even self-host, for some services would not allow self-hosted.
crany 👽🧡🗿 · 87w
How does IP SMTP sending reputation work self hosting email? Totally agree on self-sovereignty of wallet(s).
Islamic Audiobooks Central · 87w
On top of that, some of their web assets are loaded from Israeli #Cloudinary...
mike · 87w
Or they’re still new and learning. Just because they are a company, doesn’t mean they are not ignorant!
Om | 1¢ / 1śat | 2.1 quadrillion · 87w
LOOOOL so you write all that then shill your own product?! Dude … read the room
Banana Shake · 87w
This is perhaps more for on-boarding/promoting/spreading awareness of #bitcoin to normies/noobs How can you expect a normie/noob to run their own email server/vps? If anything, perhaps #nostr should have a built in way of hosting an email address/server?
GHOST · 87w
I’m waiting to see more about the wallet before I make up my mind. The email is fine. More than fine, a good choice for most people. Not everything is a honeypot. Most people should not self host their own email.
freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg · 87w
Just one point of clarification, they *do* let you use/upload your own gpg key for email. It may only be for higher/paid tiers, but I'm using my own locally-generated gpg key with their services.
hit with a hint of s · 87w
I am self hosting email & addy for like 3months now and I don’t think I am ever going back
JD · 87w
Self hosted email is something I've been interested in for a while. But seems like some uphill learning to pull it off. I was a fan of Proton for a while but then there were honeypot conerns and such. And I don't have the technical ability to audit their code. If someone is running a home serve...
Tobo⚡ · 87w
selfhosted or not, email will never be private (except in some very special cases when both sides watch out for footguns) As for the wallet, let's just wait and see ... and apparently lightning and maybe even whirlpool are coming