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Previous discussion of the addition of payments here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827 In addi
by dogecoinbase 5y ago
Previous discussion of the addition of payments here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827
In addition to the conflict of interest Moxie has (and, honestly, I can see that side -- of course he'd want to be involved in the cryptographic design of a privacy-preserving payment system -- but he still needs to come clean about his relationship with MobileCoin), the most disturbing thing to me remains that the source to the server wasn't publicly updated for nearly a year while they added this feature, the timing of when the source went dark clearly indicates that specific intent, and Moxie's statement as recently as January that they didn't have specific plans to add payment/cryptocurrency when it's clear from the server source that they had been working on it for many, many months at that time.
As usual, it's not the crime, it's the coverup.
- Klonoar 5y agoWhat is up with people thinking he's not "come clean" about his relationship with it? He/Signal have noted they own no MobileCoins, and that he's been a paid advisor to MobileCoin. Doing anything behind the scenes feels like it'd be inviting SEC attention, which MobileCoin seems to want to actively avoid by trying to keep Americans off of it. What lack of transparency do people feel is missing (beyond the server source not being updated - I agree that's a big miss)?
- ppseafield 5y agoAs the server source drop showed, they had been working on it since April 2020, publicly downplayed the idea just three months ago, and then... launched the beta. I would describe that as pretty deceptive. "Marlinspike played down the potential of crypto payments in Signal, saying only that the company had done some “design explorations” around the idea. But significant engineering resources have been devoted to developing MobileCoin integrations in recent quarters, former employees said." January 25th, 2021 https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging-employees-violence-misinformation https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...
- Klonoar 5y agoYeah - I just don't see how this is surprising. For any other company, if they were downplaying a product launch for timing/perception/etc reasons, nobody would bat an eye.
- sodality2 5y agohttps://www.coindesk.com/signal-founder-may-have-been-more-than-tech-adviser-mobilecoin https://www.coindesk.com/signal-founder-may-have-been-more-t... May have been more than an advisor.