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It's crazy that they chose bitcoin over monero
They're a for-profit: they cater to the most successful scam.
Actually, they claim to transition to a non-profit model.
Not exactly. Proton is still for-profit, they just now have a non-profit foundation behind it. Just like Mozilla does.
A for-profit that wrapped itself in a non-profit shell that is empty and just run by the for-profit?
Didn't they just switch to a nonprofit format, though?
Or shielded Zcash