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Pretty amazing and absolutely deserved. After the failures of systems like PGP, which aren't really suitable for the masses, the Signal protocol did a great job
by Asdfbla 9y ago
Pretty amazing and absolutely deserved. After the failures of systems like PGP, which aren't really suitable for the masses, the Signal protocol did a great job at spreading end-to-end encryption. I'm happy to hear that they got some philanthropic funding, even though I don't doubt that Moxie and the others did the work out of principle anyway and might have continued to do so even without the money.
- acct1771 9y agoIMO, saying PGP has failed is like saying cryptocurrencies have failed.
- tomcatfish 9y agoThere is no public interest in PGP from non-technicals
- acct1771 9y agoAnd the only reason Bitcoin is interesting is because "we" have effectively communicated, correctly or otherwise, that there's value in cryptocurrencies.
- Asdfbla 9y agoThe overwhelming majority of people use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies through exchanges, they have no interest or knowledge of technical details. So it's not like technical communication has won here, more like greed and ease of use.
- andirk 9y agoI agree with this completely! Bitcoin evangelist Trace Mayer always harps on keeping your private keys and not using exchanges to hold large amounts of coins. And Mayer's an investor in Kraken, one of the big exchanges. I have taught my friends this and they all had interest in it, but some skeptical if they trusted in themself enough to hold onto their coins offline.
- emodendroket 9y agoConsidering the diversity of opinions on cryptocurrencies, this post leaves me with no idea what you think about PGP.
- acct1771 9y agoThe verdict is still out on both, because, as a society, we aren't ready to make use of them/the UX haven't been made easy enough for the unwashed masses yet.