Most people will hear that they have to pay money to get their name and immediately close the page. Many that continue will discover they need to also use yet a

Most people will hear that they have to pay money to get their name and immediately close the page. Many that continue will discover they need to also use yet another cryptocurrency or will simply say "I don't know how to use bitcoin" and close the page. I agree that Signal requiring a phone number is bad, but I have to admit they may have hit the sweet spot if what Status is proposing is the best privacy-focused alternative we can come up with. I don't care how private, how fancy your messaging app is... it's useless if you can't get the majority of your contacts on it. And frankly, I don't see anybody on my list using this. Hell, I don't even want to bother with it. I can't imagine convincing my friends.