I am willing to wait until the dust settles before passing judgement, but if the facts in the linked article - that the exchange backing this basically unknown

I am willing to wait until the dust settles before passing judgement, but if the facts in the linked article - that the exchange backing this basically unknown currency is financially tied to Signal in some way - then it's hard to not see _potential_ conflicts of interest here, and be suspicious of the motivations involved. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... etc.. As for Moxie.. he has indeed done great work, but a lot of people, ethical or otherwise, get to a point in their life where they just want to get paid and move on. I'm not saying that's the case here, I have no insider info, but it has certainly happened before. All I hope is that this is an opt-in feature that you can easily ignore or disable, and it's not constantly being pushed on us and getting in the way of just sending messages.