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ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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PR. Nothing else. Who wants to pay with Bitcoin when Bitcoin is skyrocketing like crazy?

everyone that pays with bitcoin now that everything is cheaper?

yeah it goes counter to all of the anti-deflationary schools of economics, but when have economists ever gotten actual human behavior right?

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Bitcoin is not anonymous.

Monero support would be nice.

I've used shapeshift for this for years.

Every time I get a bitcoin invoice, I shapeshift some Monero

I don't get why anyone would ever want a snapshot of their finances ever.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

#73
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The transactions may be public, but your identity can be masked if done properly.

If you want to mask your identity wouldn't you be better off buying Visa gift cards with cash at a major store and then using them to purchase services online?

Not really. You can unlink all of your cryptocurrency transactions with Monero. This is sufficient for fiat too.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

#74
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More "progress" from ProtonMail, while they still provide no way to export emails in bulk. They recommend you forward every individual email or print it. The Export feature has been an open request since before March 2015. Another feature which would give users a way to get their mail out of PM is the ability to check mail from a client like Outlook or Thunderbird. That has been an open feature request since before F…

Fastmail's Standard plan also includes up to 600 aliases and up to 100 domains. Even if you've only got one domain you'll use, I can't understand how anyone is willing to tie their main domain to servers that will only let you receive email at 5 different addresses, seems like waste of MX records. I keep hoping for a change but feel thoroughly disappointed each time I periodically check their pricing page.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

#75

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Bitcoin mixers would serve you well in this instance. Just buy BTC normally and clean via a mixer.

And how do you know that that the Bitcoin mixer you decided to use is not actually operated by the FBI and that they are actually keeping a private log tying bitcoins in with bitcoins out?

Monero.

This whole argument is stuck in 2012. Lean not on your own understanding and look at the technology thats out there.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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More "progress" from ProtonMail, while they still provide no way to export emails in bulk. They recommend you forward every individual email or print it. The Export feature has been an open request since before March 2015. Another feature which would give users a way to get their mail out of PM is the ability to check mail from a client like Outlook or Thunderbird. That has been an open feature request since before F…

Try to relax a bit. It is good for your health. :) Both of those features are under development. If you would like to see them sooner rather than later, perhaps you know some great programmers that you could recommend to careers@protonmail.ch? Or, you could share ProtonMail's Careers page: https://protonmail.com/careers ProtonMail is hiring!

Protonmail fan and user here. Guys, honestly there are better ways to respond to customers and potential customers, without the patronizing tone. That can't possibly help.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Try to relax a bit. It is good for your health. :) Both of those features are under development. If you would like to see them sooner rather than later, perhaps you know some great programmers that you could recommend to careers@protonmail.ch? Or, you could share ProtonMail's Careers page: https://protonmail.com/careers ProtonMail is hiring!

Maybe they should also be hiring some sort of customer interaction expert as well.

https://protonmail.com/careers#technical-support-specialist

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

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Try to relax a bit. It is good for your health. :) Both of those features are under development. If you would like to see them sooner rather than later, perhaps you know some great programmers that you could recommend to careers@protonmail.ch? Or, you could share ProtonMail's Careers page: https://protonmail.com/careers ProtonMail is hiring!

This is a great example of how not to interact with customers. Telling a customer who's been waiting on a feature for over a year to relax is just insulting. I picked Fastmail due to their excellent support reputation, you all could learn from them!

Sometimes the customer is either flat wrong or at least an asshole. ProtonMail sends yearly surveys to paying customers asking for help prioritizing development efforts, so suggesting they don't listen to their customers is asinine. IMAP support is in beta as a result of customers prioritizing it in those surveys. As they are likely limited primarily by funding and developer bandwidth, I see nothing wrong with their response above and will continue paying for their service.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

#79

PR. Nothing else. Who wants to pay with Bitcoin when Bitcoin is skyrocketing like crazy?

everyone that pays with bitcoin now that everything is cheaper? yeah it goes counter to all of the anti-deflationary schools of economics, but when have economists ever gotten actual human behavior right?

Nobody does. And this is the problem with having no inflation. Every economy needs a slight inflation, otherwise people stop consuming, instead save all their money and it gets worse => deflation.

Bitcoin equals gold, nobody uses Bitcoin to consume anything. I don't know which human behavior you refer to.

Re: ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments

#80

But are they open source yet? Sure, you can find the web client sources. How about the server, and the mobile apps? The website makes a big deal of them being open source after all ( https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-open-source/ ).

Mobile apps should be open source, but server doesn't really matter. It's just some boring plumbing shuffling around a bunch of encrypted blobs.
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