I think that most criticism comes from the choice to include their wallet into Signal, a private messaging app. I'm pretty certain a MobileCoin wallet app in t

I think that most criticism comes from the choice to include their wallet into Signal, a private messaging app. I'm pretty certain a MobileCoin wallet app in the play store would've been well received by those who are interested in the concept of MobileCoin. Users that are interested in both Signal and MobileCoin could just install both apps side by side. The decision to link this coin to signal appears to me to be a decision to compete with other cryptocurrencies not by merit of being a better payment solution but by reach. Facebook and Google frequently make this decision (reach instead of merit) and HN regularly criticizes them for it. I think it is fair and honest to criticize Signal for it as well.