A Bitcoin Guy on Nostr: Why #Bitcoin for Proton Wallet? The answer is the same for why Proton chose to create ...
Why #Bitcoin for Proton Wallet? The answer is the same for why Proton chose to create a product for email. If I went back to 2014 with a clean slate & wanted to build the most private communication channel in the world…
I would not build email on SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). The protocol was build in the 1980’s with many concerns. The web as we know it today did not exist yet and the privacy was very poor. The most important redeeming features were it was federated & decentralised.
There is no central authority that controls email. Anyone can run their own server & the protocol can’t really change because of the challenge of achieving general consensus amongst users for any changes. These properties made email the most effective communication tool ever.
Everyone has it & everyone needs to use it. Despite after 30 years of trying to displace it with attempts at creating better communication technologies, email is still here. Why? Because it has the biggest network.
The reason Proton chose email for Proton Mail can be used as an analogy for why Proton chose #Bitcoin for Proton Wallet’
Andy.Yen, physicist & CEO of Proton during a recent chat episode on The Bitcoin Audible podcast with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev)
I would not build email on SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). The protocol was build in the 1980’s with many concerns. The web as we know it today did not exist yet and the privacy was very poor. The most important redeeming features were it was federated & decentralised.
There is no central authority that controls email. Anyone can run their own server & the protocol can’t really change because of the challenge of achieving general consensus amongst users for any changes. These properties made email the most effective communication tool ever.
Everyone has it & everyone needs to use it. Despite after 30 years of trying to displace it with attempts at creating better communication technologies, email is still here. Why? Because it has the biggest network.
The reason Proton chose email for Proton Mail can be used as an analogy for why Proton chose #Bitcoin for Proton Wallet’
Andy.Yen, physicist & CEO of Proton during a recent chat episode on The Bitcoin Audible podcast with TheGuySwann (npub1h8n…rpev)