{"id":26837,"date":"2024-07-25T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=26837"},"modified":"2024-07-25T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T09:42:00","slug":"proton-mail-adds-a-bitcoin-wallet-yes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2024\/07\/25\/proton-mail-adds-a-bitcoin-wallet-yes-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton Mail adds a bitcoin wallet. Yes, really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proton Mail is a privacy-focused email provider. We wrote last week on <a href=\"https:\/\/pivot-to-ai.com\/\">Pivot to AI<\/a> about Proton Mail adding an <a href=\"https:\/\/pivot-to-ai.com\/2024\/07\/18\/proton-mail-goes-ai-security-focused-userbase-goes-what-on-earth\/\">AI writing assistant<\/a>\u00a0and many users&#8217; sheer horror that Proton was going this way. A lot of Proton Mail users insisted it would be <em>fine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Then yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pivot-to-ai.com\/2024\/07\/25\/proton-mail-adds-a-bitcoin-wallet-yes-really\/\">Proton added a bitcoin wallet<\/a>. In 2024. We&#8217;ve posted this on Pivot to AI as a followup story.<\/p>\n<p>JUST DO THE EMAIL, GUYS. YOU DO THE EMAIL WELL. PLEASE.<\/p>\n<p>It was very nice of Proton to put the perfect illustration right there on their support pages:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2024\/07\/25\/proton-mail-adds-a-bitcoin-wallet-yes-really\/proton-mail-phishing\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26838\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/proton-mail-phishing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/proton-mail-phishing.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/proton-mail-phishing-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/proton-mail-phishing-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUST DO THE EMAIL, GUYS. YOU DO THE EMAIL WELL. PLEASE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,3842],"class_list":["post-26837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bitcoin","tag-proton-mail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/proton-mail-phishing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26840,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26837\/revisions\/26840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}