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Sign the petition to get proton to accept Monero for payment. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We need 804 more signatures. https://www.change.org/p/proton-to-add-monero-payment-support?recruited_by_id=95fb2230-546c-11f0-89ad-6118a8d0681a

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think it's that easy. the CEO Andy Yen talked about this briefly in this podcast, it boils down to financial auditors not liking cryptocurrencies. he said even just by accepting bitcoin most of the auditors won't agree to audit their company, all the while they are legally required to have regular audits

https://optoutpod.com/episodes/protonwallet-andy-yen/

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mullvad seems to have figured it out

Being that they still treat Linux as a second class citizen, I'm guessing they just don't care.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, maybe that person didn't have permission to speak like that, but they said that they would get it into the summer plans in a screenshot right on the page.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

tbh I didn't read the petition page until now because I didn't expect an official source, but this is going to be interesting

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's what actually makes me think that it could happen. Just because it was an official source.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 11 hours ago

another person here also highlighted that mullvad can already do btc + monero + traditional money, so I guess maybe it could just work that way.

interesting though, that mullvad had that for many years now, didn't it? and this podcast is not old. why did Andy say what he said?