• jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    132·
    1 year 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…

    • Pilgrim@beehaw.org
      51·
      1 year 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.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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

        • delirious_owl@discuss.online
          3·
          1 year ago

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

        • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          They aren’t an intermediary. It’s a fully self-custody wallet.

    • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s a self-custody wallet, they do not control the keys.