# Proton Mail.
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**[Voluntary Japan](https://www.facebook.com/VoluntaryJapan/) is now using Proton Mail.**

 If you are using the service as well, do let me know. It would be good to connect this Steem network to a more private network of anarchist individuals of like mind. Proton Mail offers end-to-end encrypted email and is based in Switzerland. Encryption is done in the local machine/device browser, and no decryption keys are stored on Proton Mail's servers. It's pretty cool. One of my students here in Japan was using it, and so I decided I would try it out.

I just sent an email to myself (gmail account) and encrypted it. When I tried to open it in gmail, I had to enter the encryption password (which only you and your recipient would know/agree upon). When I clicked on the "open" button, I was taken out of gmail to Proton Mail's page, and prompted to enter the password. I did this, then hit "decrypt" and could read the message. All outside of gmail. Fucking beautiful. I was then presented with the option to "reply securely." 

I upgraded my account just now as it seems like end-to-end encryption with emails even from outside mail services is done automatically with the upgraded account. With the basic account, your responder will have to choose "reply securely," otherwise the encryption will not be end-to-end. Intra-Proton Mail exchanges are always automatically encrypted, however, even with basic accounts, as I understand it. What's more, ***I FUCKING PAID WITH BTC. YUSSSS.***
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*[SOURCE.](https://z.cash)*
# ZCash (ZEC), Interesting Nasdaq Article, and Questions:
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>Zcash : Zcash's privacy strategy is essentially to erase the "memory" - that is, the transaction history - of coins whenever a transaction occurs. Like Monero and Particl, by obfuscating transaction history, Zcash makes it impossible to trace transactions. ZEC uses an advance cryptographic technique called zk-SNARKs to make their coins private. And like Particl, Zcash is developing uses for its privacy beyond the currency.

SOURCE: [NASDAQ ARTICLE](http://www.nasdaq.com/article/know-your-coins-public-vs-private-cryptocurrencies-cm849588): "Public vs. Private Crytpocurrencies"

# I'm thinking of putting more of my eggs in the "dark crypto" basket.

Is anyone here a holder of ZCash (ZEC)? If so, what attracted you to the token? Worth investing in? What are some of the other dark coins you like/tend to trust?
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# Wickr Me: End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
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# I am on Wickr Me. Trusted anarchists and voluntaryist friends, please get at me on here. Send me your username via Proton Mail and let's network. SMS is the go-to communication for many of us these days, and these messages are nobody's business but our own.

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# ~KafkA

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***Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)***

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