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Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' (tech.slashdot.org)

Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology...

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PGP solved this a long time ago, but it is difficult to make it user friendly enough for non-technical people to understand and adopt it.

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Yeah these issues are definitely not new, but replacing “I trust the people who sign/verify my keys” versus “I trust the blockchain” is not too far off. What rules are going to be in place for peers to validate entries to the blockchain and independently reach enough concensus to achieve true decentralization?

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There’s another podcast from CanadaLand called Commons (www.canadaland.com/shows/commons/) that I enjoy a lot, they do mini series that dig a little deeper into topics that come up in current events.

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Me: I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and respond assuming you’re speaking from a place of genuine lack of knowledge, not willful malice.

That was your biggest mistake. I appreciate that when bigots spew their stupidity online it should be responded to, but the response should be aimed more at convincing other people that the argument is wrong rather than convincing the original poster that they are wrong. Provide the counter argument for everyone else and move on.

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