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A "Private Blockchain" used to store pgp public keys of email addresses? Seriously wtf is wrong with you Proton??!

https://proton.me/support/key-transparency

1) Why a "private blockchain"? Why not just a database that you run on your servers?

2) Why are you reinventing pgp keyservers with absolutely no upside?

Management who don't understand the basics of a immutable data structure should really stop funding dumb block chain projects. Billions in capital was wasted during the web 3 craze.

So many start ups trying to use single node block chains as slow postgress instances.

Then called their slow ass database with extra steps web scale.

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Makes me seriously doubt their technical competence on anything else tbh

I was interviewing with a block chain startup. Because they were using a golang postgress stack. What I usually code in.

I asked everyone who interviewed me how they planned to generate revenue with their "smart contraccs".

Not a single developer could give me a straight answer.

They had hundreds of millions in funding.

No real plan to make money.

And I'm sure they never did.

This is a transfersal issue in today's VC world. Most startups have absolutely no plan on how to monetize, they are just winging it. Cheap money enables this

It's so weird to me. I'm not interested in a start up that will just lay me off in two years with a bunch of worthless stock. The whole point of going to a start up is company equity.