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Two things, I think: 3) The "turmoil in Signal" article that made the rounds a few months ago had mentions of the MobileCoin work; I don't think is news so muc

Two things, I think: 3) The "turmoil in Signal" article that made the rounds a few months ago had mentions of the MobileCoin work; I don't think is news so much as people weren't really paying attention. 5) The price spike, to my knowledge, was (partly) some whale at play. This is not a rebuttal to your point as I don't think anybody could prove this for sure tho, but mostly throwing it here for context.

pseudalopex 6y ago
The article came out 9 months into a 12 month process. And expecting everyone to see every article about every app they use is unrealistic.
- Klonoar 6y ago
  >And expecting everyone to see every article about every app they use is unrealistic. The article was posted here with significant discussion, so no, I feel fine assuming that readers of this forum (and certainly with respect to this topic) have a likelihood of having seen it.
  - pseudalopex 6y ago
    You overestimate how consistently and thoroughly people read HN.
    - Klonoar 6y ago
      Sure. But that's better than having multiple commenters across these threads show you links indicating that this wasn't a grand secret, which you just disregard because it doesn't fit a narrative. shrug
      - pseudalopex 6y ago
        The article you keep talking about[1] and the articles the other person linked[2] don't indicate what you claim they do. The article you keep talking about relied on leaks. Marlinspike dismissed the MobileCoin work as "design explorations" less than 3 months ago. They stopped publishing the server source just before they started working on payments. They started again just after announcing it. Someone who read the right article 3 years ago might have predicted this would happen some day. That doesn't change Marlinspike tried to hide they were actually working on it in 2020 and 2021. [1] https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718488

pseudalopex 6y ago

The article came out 9 months into a 12 month process. And expecting everyone to see every article about every app they use is unrealistic.

Klonoar 6y ago
>And expecting everyone to see every article about every app they use is unrealistic. The article was posted here with significant discussion, so no, I feel fine assuming that readers of this forum (and certainly with respect to this topic) have a likelihood of having seen it.
- pseudalopex 6y ago
  You overestimate how consistently and thoroughly people read HN.
  - Klonoar 6y ago
    Sure. But that's better than having multiple commenters across these threads show you links indicating that this wasn't a grand secret, which you just disregard because it doesn't fit a narrative. shrug
    - pseudalopex 6y ago
      The article you keep talking about[1] and the articles the other person linked[2] don't indicate what you claim they do. The article you keep talking about relied on leaks. Marlinspike dismissed the MobileCoin work as "design explorations" less than 3 months ago. They stopped publishing the server source just before they started working on payments. They started again just after announcing it. Someone who read the right article 3 years ago might have predicted this would happen some day. That doesn't change Marlinspike tried to hide they were actually working on it in 2020 and 2021. [1] https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-battle-inside-signal [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26718488