The news: black hat hackers have stolen 600 BTC

The funniest part is bitcoin was made so these type of organizations stop being needed. You an other 4 people can create a 3 out of 5 multisig btc wallet to which you collectively send money, then you vote which projects you are gonna donate it to.

Google knows ypu are a robot, so it uses you for getting human training data for their robots. Google's captcha was never about knowing if you were a bot

The account doxxer 2000

Reason number one: They don't want you to have control over your money

Yeah... the usual "AI is so dumb" yet he's still using it everytime.

Get ready guys. The "self custody is dangerous, only bank custody allowed" move is getting closer each year.

The thing is payment fingerprinting would also work outside bank payments. If you declare a btc sell equivalent to the proton subscription every month, they know you have a proton account. And if the prices you pay match the tailored quantities of a singular proton account they can KYC your crypto-paid proton account.

A bit complex and probably not effective in real life unless it's a tailored attack, but my point is if proton personalizes price/any sort of content they are turning a big pool of anonymous metadata into smaller and more trackable groups. Prices are indeed used for tracking.

VPN users. If every VPN account has an unique monthly payment amount, a bank can check your transactions and know that it is you paying for it, because no one else would have a monthly payment matching that specific price. This example is a bit extreme because for the moment prices are not that unique. But if proton is creating, for example, 3 different prices, the pool of users that could own a certain account is reduced to one third just by looking at their subscription price.

Womp womp