• TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      2 years ago

      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.

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        2 years ago

        Bitcoin and blockchain have only two use cases:

        1. Financial speculation
        2. Fraud and criminal activities
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          2 years ago

          You obviously don’t know what you are talking about. Why are you talking then? This is silly.

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            2 years ago

            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!”.

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              2 years ago

              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.

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                2 years ago

                “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.

      • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        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.

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          2 years ago

          People use BTC everywhere in the world, for example the anti-Putin opposition. Proton is implementing what people need, that’s fairly simple.