Alp on Nostr: This is exactly what bugs me about that news. 1. I pay for Proton with a credit card ...
This is exactly what bugs me about that news.
1. I pay for Proton with a credit card or another fiat payment provider => they know, which email address belongs to me.
2. I create a wallet with that account. It takes a lot of trust to believe, Proton (and thus also each country requesting information) doesn't know the wallet's address.
They could now connect my identity from the payment to the wallet I created.
I know, email content is encrypted and also the seed phrase is only known to me. But in the past, Proton had to hand out meta information like email address, recipient, time and date etc. to law enforcement.
Now add to that, that the EU is planing to implement a central asset register for every citizen. Switzerland too, by the way.
Or am I missing something here?
In any case, the “advantage” of sending Bitcoin via email to another Proton user is not enough for me to take this risk.
I would somehow prefer a completely anonymous model, like Mullvad, where you can also pay in cash in an envelope or crypto. Or better a wallet that cannot be connected to anything else.
1. I pay for Proton with a credit card or another fiat payment provider => they know, which email address belongs to me.
2. I create a wallet with that account. It takes a lot of trust to believe, Proton (and thus also each country requesting information) doesn't know the wallet's address.
They could now connect my identity from the payment to the wallet I created.
I know, email content is encrypted and also the seed phrase is only known to me. But in the past, Proton had to hand out meta information like email address, recipient, time and date etc. to law enforcement.
Now add to that, that the EU is planing to implement a central asset register for every citizen. Switzerland too, by the way.
Or am I missing something here?
In any case, the “advantage” of sending Bitcoin via email to another Proton user is not enough for me to take this risk.
I would somehow prefer a completely anonymous model, like Mullvad, where you can also pay in cash in an envelope or crypto. Or better a wallet that cannot be connected to anything else.
quoting note1a0p…l6fjIf Proton has time to work on Bitcoin, they should first start accepting Lightning payments. Why develop a Bitcoin wallet, if you cannot run a Lightning node?!!