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September 12, 2024 · 1h 31m

PROTON WALLET: Privacy, Censorship & Building on Bitcoin - Andy Yen (THE Bitcoin Podcast)

“If Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and the big banks decided to gang up on Proton, they can still do the same thing to us today, right? So from that moment to today, I think I've always been the advocate of how can we get this powerful concept [Bitcoin] that enabled Proton to survive 10 years ago and make it more widespread and make it more common? Because I think the future of business, democracy, freedom, it really depe

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2 And it is one of the most, 3 I think powerful business concepts ever 4 because the issue that we faced today, even 10 years on, 5 if Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, 6 and the big banks decided to gain up on Proton, 7 they can still do the same thing to us today, right?

8 So from that moment to today, 9 I think I've always been an advocate 10 of how can we get this powerful concept 11 that any other proton to survive 10 years ago 12 and make it more widespread, make it more common.

13 Because I think the future of business, democracy, freedom, 14 it really depends on this.

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This is incredibly powerful.

And it is one of the most,

I think powerful business concepts ever

because the issue that we faced today, even 10 years on,

if Visa, MasterCard, PayPal,

and the big banks decided to gain up on Proton,

they can still do the same thing to us today, right?

So from that moment to today,

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“If Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and the big banks decided to gang up on Proton, they can still do the same thing to us today, right? So from that moment to today, I think I've always been the advocate of how can we get this powerful concept [Bitcoin] that enabled Proton to survive 10 years ago and make it more widespread and make it more common? Because I think the future of business, democracy, freedom, it really depends on this.”

On this Bitcoin Talk episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast , Walker talks with Andy Yen , the CEO and Founder of Proton. Not only does Proton offer encrypted email, VPN, file storage, and a password manager, but they recently announced they’re launching Proton Wallet, a self-custodial Bitcoin-only wallet, which is currently in beta but will soon be available to their 100 million users worldwide.

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X: https://x.com/andyyen

Proton Wallet: https://proton.me/wallet

Proton: https://proton.me/

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