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An open-source and mature privacy cryptocurrency that is hosted in proton's cloud, specifically in Switzerland, in order for it to serve, legally, as a type of one's own swiss bank account.
This is not for evading tax laws--though if I'm honest it enables this (people are responsible for their own actions)--but for resisting fiscal-censorship from increasingly censorious and manipulative governments.
Sometimes, money IS speech. For example, in political donations, or funding activism campaigns.
We've seen recently how governments have censored people's speech by restricting their ability to give money to certain creators on patreon or through paypal, in the name of 'fighting misinformation / disinformation or 'malinformation' (which is true information that undercuts the government's kontrol narratives). We've seen how the Canadian government has fought people's speech by blocking their bank accounts for participating in the truck protests, OR by attempting to fund the same.
We've seen govs intervene by forcing private third party social media and crowdfunding platforms into blocking certain actions. The terms of service agreements on these platforms are such that people who have donated cannot get their monies back; that money is effectively 'seized' by the platform if the platform decides to 'cancel' a fundraising drive.
This is all nonsense
Of course, cryptocurrency is NOT a cure to these things, as it has no such idea as a 'chargeback'. This makes people singularly responsible for their volutary agreements; and as such, this is going to force stronger contracts between parties.
But one thing that it will absolutely STOP is the government's ability to proxy-censor, proxy-block people from being able to transact with one another, and that's a good thing.
And furthermore, governments hate Monero (Dero, Pirate chain and the like) because it's a TRUE private cryptocurrency that uses a kind of internal transaction scrambling black box to purposefully obfuscate transactions.
That makes it nearly impossible for governments to interfere with our transactions. Its' going to force governments to get warrants, to find other evidence and do real police work to find bad guys, but it protects those who are not doing anything wrong. Its security being the double edged sword it is (also enables crime / criminals), also protects from 'official confabulation of finances in order to frame or defame their political enemies'---which as we've seen is increasingly a problem...and will be even more a problem with the introduction of AI superfakes and confabulated video / audio recordings.
Thanks for reading this and thank you kindly for your consideration of these topics.
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Work on this feature request is underway, starting with iOS.
🗓️ A new calendar invite widget shows the main event info in all emails that contain event invites. Tapping on it takes you to the #ProtonCalendar app directly from your inbox.
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Banking services and online services seem to be requiring SMS in order to use their services. Without it, you cannot use their services. I have been without a mobile phone for 5 yrs, and twitter locked me out for security and I've been unable to get back into my twitter account because it demands I provide an SMS phone number.
Other sites are like this, especially financial ones. This means that AT&T is really insinuated into all these services, and THAT means heavy use of SMS means that the NSA for some reason needs access to your banking and social media also. Not sure why. (AT&T is the private face of the NSA, and AT&T fundamentally controls all of SMS)
I'd like an SMS-compatible service for Protonmail, to act as a 2 factor authentication in order to make these services that only offer SMS as a means to get into your financial and social media.
I know that protonmail is not a VOIP company, but an email company. However, I live in a cabin and have no mobile phone and I don't want a mobile phone, because I am so remote there are no cellphone towers that are available within 5 mi of my cabin. So I have to use VOIP as my landline, using a very minimal broadband point-to-point long distance microwave (wifi) solution which is sufficient.
I notice that banking and other online services are absolutely tonedeaf to rural people, and more people are moving to rural from cities because of covid. They are in for a HUGE surprise: internet is still spotty and difficult in 2021. So is cell coverage.
This SMS reliance effectively means that if you can't get to a cell tower then you cannot use these services, because you cannot use 2 factor authentication via SMS.
This is a problem that has effectively 'frozen out' rural people from crytpocurrency banks like coinbase, online only banks like ally.com, and twitter, facebook, google and other services that heavily rely on SMS
This is a problem. I kind of hate SMS because of this, but Proton could come up with a solution for those of us that are frozen out.
I am guessing its far more than you could realize, but maybe research it if it sounds like a service you'd want to offer.
All you would really need is secure SIP provider that could handle SMS and then could then encrypt it in an envelope that would hide all disambiguation details, the content AND the phone number; and of course a database where the relationship between the sms number and the email address is stored
You could even have the SMS number stored in the users protonmail account and does a "lookup" of any sms messages in a database using the hash of the encrypted phone number to match the hashed number in the database, and make it user initiated
So if someone is waiting for an SMS message, they can go and click a button "look for messages" and then in their application they can have the application send the SMS 2 factor message
and for 5-10 minutes after the user presses the button, it will look for any SMS messages in the database. This 'user initiated' process means that proton won't have to use so much resource to constantly poll for sms messages. SMS messages just acts like a shared inbox, where the hash of people's sms phone number acts like a "post office box for sms"
My title is confusing. It's actually suggesting a "non-custodial" wallet on proton's servers
I said 'custodial' because I bad-edited and meant to say "Proton-Custodial"
Ugh. I shouldn't have even used that word.