Oddbean new post about login | logout I use proton accounts in a compartmentalized way for different purposes. One for my real identity and business, one for VPN that is separate, on for an anonymous account etc. One trick: Sign up for a free account separate from your main account OVER TOR using their onion site. Make sure it's a free account. If you try to pay for an account at sign up you will have to use a debit card initially. If you upgrade from a free account, you can use cash or Bitcoin! Sign up over Tor on the Proton Pass page and you don't have to give an emal. There is an option when doing it this way (on the Proton Pass page to create a free account and they will automatically create an email for you. Then, upgrade using Bitcoin or cash and there is no worry of "having all your eggs in one basket". *DO NOT SET A BACKUP email or phone number. They are not recommended and not required.
Amazing tips thanks!
You bet! I don't know why, but when signing up for a free account using the mail tab, you have to enter a valid (non alias email), but when you sign up on the Proton Pass tab, there is an option for them to immediately create an email for you. I assume it will be sitewide soon, but for now, this is the way :)
Good tips--the whole KYC thing is just so dystopian...everyone is tracking you--every device--other people's devices are tracking you (contacts, BLE, Amazon Sidewalk, etc.) -- it's just insane... Long for the days when you could just set up an email account and voila--you could contact your friends... (Sadly those days are long gone...never to return)
It really is. BTC went from being a currency to a highly regulated asset co-opted by big banks and gov. I stack sats, but I use Monero. Unlike Bitcoin, Monero doesn't need a 2nd or 3rd layer to be private. It is private and untraceable by default on a protocol level. Delisting it from tge CEXs only served to make it more private ;)
You should also mention that BTC is NOT censorship resistant. We saw that already with some Mining companies
I find XMR compelling--it's really now serving as a stable coin (price has sat around $150-$160 forever). I do like the privacy aspects, but its reputation as a "criminal coin" (unjustified as it is) will be hard to shake. I suspect if any crypto will be "banned" Monero will be it (whether a ban will be successful is another story). I could see it surviving as a privacy based stablecoin--but I can also see swapping BTC for XMR being designated as defacto "proof" of money laundering.... Will be interesting to watch XMR as the months go by, and as the crypto industry matures and adoption increases.
Very useful tip. Thx.
You bet ✊
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