• jet@hackertalks.com
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    4 months ago

    They want to become a money transfer service. The whole Bitcoin by email thing, it’s a play to make themselves the middleman of a Venmo type architecture

    So any two proton users who have the wallet enabled, can send and receive money seamlessly using their custodial key management…

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      4 months ago

      Sorry, I understand why a company would want to capitalize on the crypto bubble if it was 2022, but I meant this more as an existential “whyyyyy” but didn’t have the energy for that.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t think they care if it’s crypto, crypto is just one way to do it, they want to be the intermediary between people’s transfers

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          4 months ago

          Well, crypto is more secure. You couldn’t really do that securely with a fiat system