yes yes yes, being able to pay with an unlinkable cryptocurrency for my encrypted mail account upgrade would be really cool! make it happen protonmail!

ps: I already sent you guys a request in person beforehand. you can also get in touch with the cryptostorm.is team to get feedback if it is worthwhile dealing with Monero ;-)

>> Btw, Dash is anonymous and has 5x the market cap of Monero.
>It provides lesser degree of privacy and is not a FLOSS project and many other reasons.

Incorrect. Dash is 100% FLOSS. As for anonymity, I disagree that it provides for less privacy. Monero is not magic either and there are audit-ability concerns and more.

That being said, as much as I would love Protonmail to accept various crypto-currencies, Dash certainly has a significantly more robust community and history and is far easier to use, but for protonmail's purposes, I would have them just stick with bitcoin. It is trivial to anonymize through Monero or Dash into some random Bitcoin address and then pay that way if you want.

Unless of course, protonmail dudes disagree, but if they were a small company, that would be my recommendation this early in the process:
1. Still uncomfortable with crytocurrencies? (and they seem to be since there is no automated bitcoin payment mechanism yet) Then stick with Bitcoin
2. Comfortable with Cryptocurrencies, then try to support the top 5 or so that are actual currencies (for example, Ether is not really a currency per ce).

Anyway... my 2 cents.

Looking forward to having Monero as a payment option.

Instead of trying to integrate several types of crypto's, just integrate BitCoin and use shapeshift.io to shapeshift just about any incoming type of crypto to BitCoin.

And as for asking for Monero specifically, why not just use Dash??
Anyway, from the point of view of ProtonMail, I think just adding BitCoin and using shapeshift.io's services would be the easiest way to roll out a crypto payment system.

> Monero has less than USD500K
How does that limit your ability to pay for ProtonMail?

> Even Litecoin has millions per day to say nothing of Ethereum and Bitcoin.
None of them are anonymous

> If you want anonymity then use an HD wallet and/or a mixing service or Shapeshift.io
This is a clunky way of obtaining poor anonymity including a counter party risk and a possibility of tainting your coins

> Btw, Dash is anonymous and has 5x the market cap of Monero.
It provides lesser degree of privacy and is not a FLOSS project and many other reasons.

It makes no sense. Monero has less than USD500K volume per day most days. Why should they bother? Even Litecoin has millions per day to say nothing of Ethereum and Bitcoin. If you want anonymity then use an HD wallet and/or a mixing service or Shapeshift.io. Btw, Dash is anonymous and has 5x the market cap of Monero.

https://www.cryptostorm.is/ is already accepting monero, and benefits from customers paying with Monero. Just saying. Maybe its worth considering.

If your business is privacy, Monero is the best private, decentralized currency available.

Please add support for Monero.

XMR has ring signatures and stealth addresses and will soon have Confidential Transactions, all enforced across the network! This will effectively hide source, destination and amount and will result in a neutral financial network wich is resistant to geopolitical manipulation, coercion and censorship... Imho every privacy-focused service should use monero as a payment-option!!!

@Brad Monero is not "some small alt-coin" It has more support from prominent Bitcoin personalities than any other privacy crypto-currency. Soon it will join Ethereum and Bitcoin as the 3rd cryptocurrency on StackExchange.
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0005.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/46gfgv/list_of_prominent_bitcoin_people_that_spoke/

A vendor like Protonmail should not have to support some small alt-coin like Monero. That should outsourced to some payment gateway. It makes no sense when the amount of people who own Monero is so tiny.

Please accept Monero far more private than Bitcoin. Since I use Proton mail this would be helpful.

For maximum privacy Monero payments are far superior to Bitcoin

Those that value email privacy will appreciate the chance to pay Protonmail privately with Monero. Expect many upgrades from Monero users once this option is added.

Private email deserves a private payment option. Monero is the best option on the market.

Please accept Monero payments for Protonmail Plus and Visionary upgrades. Monero (XMR) is the most secure, private and untraceable currency available today. Many Monero users are longtime supporters of ProtonMail and would like payment privacy when upgrading their email account or making a donations.