Imo after reading it, it doesn’t seem that crazy or off-brand anymore (so long as it gets fleshed out to use something not as transactionally-inefficient as bitcoin).

Edit: their related bitcoin guide has made me change my mind somewhat and think it’s a little crazy. I was viewing this as a stepping stone (almost a functional tech demo) towards something more reasonable, but now it doesn’t look like that’s necessarily what they had in mind @_@

They said in the Reddit post that further down the road they want to implement something like Google wallet or apple pay, that would allow for credit card aliases. I think the Bitcoin solution is the one they chose to build a new platform/foundation but without all the regulation and partnerships hassle of making it for traditional payment systems.

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Or make it work properly on Mac?

Can we please get full parity between the webapps and the native apps on iOS? The damn calendar widget on iOS?

See @protonprivacy , that’s the kind of boost from the Lemmy side that I don’t understand…

The reason they don’t support Monero was adressed in a recent podcast “OptOut” with the CEO of Proton.

TLDR; they fear the biggest companies for auditing their finances, won’t work with them if they do. Which is reasonable, they are a business after all.