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What 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 ad
by Klonoar 6y ago
What 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 6y 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 6y 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 6y 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.