Yeah I really have no idea what's going on but I can say for sure that I didn't think of the possibility of it being a canary of some sort until I read that, so

Yeah I really have no idea what's going on but I can say for sure that I didn't think of the possibility of it being a canary of some sort until I read that, so it was eye opening to me. I was (and still am) definitely under-informed on Moxie's past interviews about the coin and the other stuff -- I just looked around and it was discussed on HN in 2017[0] (!!). I honestly mostly steer clear of Moxie and the other stuff related to Signal -- I personally was really annoyed with the phone number thing, but I can make peace with the fact that Signal is concerned with privacy, mass appeal, and then maybe some anonymity. I am getting a ton of value for absolutely free. In the end, the code is open source, and that is the difference that puts it above the other choices with mass appeal. For me it was basically Signal or Telegram -- there are some other F/OSS options, but they just don't have the mass appeal for me to use with friends. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935583