Thanks this is perfect to share with my normie friends

I'm on step 7

RUST_LOG=info

Don't you there googling it 😡

Speaking as someone who constantly shares text betweem phone and pc exclusively using QR codes, I wrote my own scripts to

* write a QR with clipboard content: https://git.sommerfeld.dev/dotfiles/tree/home/.local/bin/wqr

* read a QR and put the content in the system clipboard: https://git.sommerfeld.dev/dotfiles/tree/home/.local/bin/rqr

To read and generate qr codes on android, I use BinaryEye

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I gave you the answer 😪

Good analogy! I can't see your name, only your npub. You might want to rebroadcast your profile kind-0 metadata across popular relays.

I was not accusing them of shitcoinery, I was just questioning the technical soundness of a private blockchain, specially for this purpose.

I apologize for my earlier uninformed take on Proton's "private blockchain". This is the saner PoV:

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https://linux.die.net/man/1/qrencode

qrencode

Thanks for the insight!

If it's a publicly auditable centralized database, I see the value in it, although limited.

Without 3rd parties auditing changes, does it have any value in practice?

Even then, can't they just reset the whole chain at any time or roll it back? Seems pointless if that's the case

Aren't they the central authority given that they run their own private blockchain?

One could argue that the commitment log would be auditable in theory, but in practice, who would be doing it?

That's because Cloudflare is centralized and they can do as they please.

I believe an e-cash system would end up equally centralized: at some point only tokens from 1 or 2 regulated mints would be ubiquitously accepted...

Monetizing traffic is a business model, not an alternative to Cloudflare.

Tor managed to tackle this issue with PoW, that's why I mentioned it.

I haven't read this anywhere else, I'm baffled how no one is picking this up. Absolutely mental

PoW

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

How about no

Makes me seriously doubt their technical competence on anything else tbh

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?