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So will their be a version of the app that doesn’t have payments built in at all? Because if not it will only be a matter of time before someone comes up with

by tw04 6y ago

So will their be a version of the app that doesn’t have payments built in at all? Because if not it will only be a matter of time before someone comes up with a playbook convincing nontechnical users they need to send mobile coin to them in order to keep using signal. Even my non technical relatives know not to install another app that some stranger tells them they need. Trying to explain what cryptocurrency is and how not to fall into that trap if using signal sounds like a nightmare.

qqii 6y ago
> someone comes up with a playbook convincing nontechnical users they need to send mobile coin to them in order to keep using signal. This sounds pretty unlikely, as long as signal does not integrate a payment processor (and they've made no indication they will) the majority of users will not have enabled or funded their cryptocurrency wallet(s) (whichever cryptocurrency they settle on). Funding MobileCoin requires steps of non insignificant difficulty, not to mention Signal's trust model of using your contacts by default.