A Partnership with ProtonMail

[joris]

What’s up ?

[Milton]

They just launched a Bitcoin wallet.

[lawzec]

BitcoinOS

[Autotunafish]

Doesnt really look very effecient

[battbot]

What ever happened with OP? Did this fall through?

[BrunchTime]

I don’t believe OP was a legit Proton rep.

[tokidoki]

There was an update in a different thread I believe. TLDR Proton changed their priority and dropped this project. I guess similar to what Trezor did with Zcash.

[aquietinvestor]

@Beth answered this question in her ZCG candidacy thread:

@joris

Hi,

What happened to the Protonmail integration ? A Partnership with ProtonMail

@Beth

That’s a good question!

Unfortunately when the FTX collapse happened alot of companys, both crypto-native and non-native, paused their plans to expand within the industry. Proton was one such company. Shortly after the FTX news broke, they decided to halt any work in the space effective immediately and laid off the team (including our contact) who had been hired to work on the initiative. It was shared with me that they are unlikely to proceed working within the crypto industry anytime in the forseeable future given the regulatory uncertainty and some of the more negative news that has dominated the space recently.

I sitll believe there is a natural partnership between privacy-centric organizations and ZEC and that given enough time, history will prove that what happened with folks like FTX and LUNA, etc were the action of bad actors and not the ethos of an entire industry.

[Marek]

Just stumbled upon this: Petition · Proton to add Monero payment support - United States · Change.org.

[pacu]

asking inclusion in a privacy platform for a privacy coin through change.org qualifies as oximoron

[outgoing.doze]

I don’t think it does. But even then, if it works it’s a another win for Monero.

And now that we’re warmed up, we, the KYC’d governance coin, want to give lessons to who now?

[aaal]

Proton is not a champion of privacy: they gave over logs that led to the imprisonment of an activist, IIRC. Is that person still in jail?

Besides, in the middle of this thread there’s a bunch of material about suspect partnerships.Thread reaction: question legitimacy, then ignore and go ahead, then nothing happens, ‘high level people’ within ZF and ECC say they’re in consultations, years pass, more nothing, then somehow FTX gets blamed, lol.

Requests to simply receive payment in zec (which should be a simple turnkey process for any vendor, regardless of partnership - and now seem to be again!) date back to 2018, at least.

How much dev fund got spent for all these consultations?

I don’t know that we should form special partnerships in most cases at all: if our product is good and usable and we can get the word out a little, it will be used. BUT if we do need ‘special integration’ or ‘partnerships’… People with any sway: please don’t partner with other orgs with tarnished reps, there are still a few good ones out there. A basic webmail service would be a win. Let alone getting a good VPN or of course something like NYM if they can deliver the goods (and we can too.. there’s a story here but I digress…) - assuming a private coin and private networking, we have a pretty reasonable stack. Add in some vendors who could roll out infra and it’d be swell. We should make and keep those kind of partnerships in a good state.

[aaal]

This article details some of the Proton complying with law enforcement orders.

It says that in 2020 it complied with 3,017 such orders and rejected 750.

I couldn’t find out if the activist arrested was still in jail now.

[gigantes]

Every centralized service has to comply and abide and therefore should not be really trusted.