I represent ProtonMail, the leading provider of secure and private email. We like what the Zcash community is doing as a privacy protecting currency, and are interested in exploring a partnership.
There are a range of ways we can potentially do this, from offering discounts to members of the community and/or integrating Zcash payments.
Who would be the best people to discuss this with?
As a protonmail user, this is great to hear! You can contact @joshs at Electric Coin Co (ECC) or @anon35140610 at Zcash Foundation (ZF). FYI, ECC and ZF are two major entities that contibute to Zcash.
Like other members of the Zcash community, I am also an active user of ProtonMail and all Proton services.
It is a great joy to read your message on the Zcash community forum. It’s good to know that the requests made by the community (myself included) on the ProtonMail forum and on Twitter to integrate Zcash as a payment method in ProtonMail may soon be possible.
I hope you come to a good partnership agreement between ECC, ZF and ProtonMail.
It would be great to pay for Proton services with Zcash.
If this comes to fruition, the Zcash Ambassadors team will give full support in promoting this alliance.
I love history and although this forum post is not about history, I just want to leave these memories about the request the Zcash community has made to ProtonMail (maybe since 2018) about integrating Zcash as a payment method for their services.
So we hope this alliance will happen soon . Proton and Zcash have the same values and goals. They each offer a service that empowers, protects and gives freedom to all equally, upholding fundamental human rights. It would be great if they could create an alliance for the benefit of privacy for all humanity.
I think the best feature protonmail could add would be for me to let strangers pay to send me something. A z2z mailbox where I set the rate that it cost to reach out
In all seriousness though I think adding new value add features like this would be wicked. Give Zcash users an added incentive to change mail providers, and give mail users incentive to buy some ZEC.
Here I need to say, I was disappointed to note during my independent research, that protonVPN not only silently leaked in a lot of default setups, but that it also partnered with Lockheed Martin (USG “defense” contractor) subsidiary Neustar for “scrubbing” proton traffic for “DDOS protection.”
Not a great look for proton, and it wouldn’t be a great look for Zcash, ZCF etc either to just jump on that bandwagon.