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I wish so bad that the signal crypto integration would have been done better. They could have implemented a wallet and generated revenue in the hundreds of mill

I wish so bad that the signal crypto integration would have been done better. They could have implemented a wallet and generated revenue in the hundreds of millions like metamask does. Starting a new blockchain obviously has founder incentives which are great but it only makes sense when people feel like your contributing to the diversity of blockchains not simply copy pasting monero.

akvadrako 5y ago
MobileCoin has a lot going for it over Monero. Lower fees (around 1¢) and instant.
- agilob 5y ago
  afaik they are looking at other options [1]. MobileCoin is a very shady project created only to benefit creators, only 15% of coins in circulation were sold out, the rest is kept by creators [2] Moxie has personal financial interests in MobileCoin [3]: >A year ago, Platformer was the first to report that Signal was considering adding cryptocurrency payments to the platform, and it started with MobileCoin. Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike has served as an adviser to the MobileCoin cryptocurrency, which is built on the Stellar blockchain and is designed to make payments as anonymous as cash. If you're interested in monero in singal check this project https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/vd-molly-payments-stage1.html https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/vd-molly-payments-stage1... [1] We want payments in Signal to be fast, private, and work well on mobile devices. The first payments protocol we’ve added support for is a privacy focused payments network called MobileCoin, which has its own currency, MOB. https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/ https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/ [2] https://messari.io/asset/mobilecoin/profile/launch-and-initial-token-distribution https://messari.io/asset/mobilecoin/profile/launch-and-initi... [3] https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-payments-encryption-invite-regulator-scrutiny https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-paym...

akvadrako 5y ago

MobileCoin has a lot going for it over Monero. Lower fees (around 1¢) and instant.

agilob 5y ago
afaik they are looking at other options [1]. MobileCoin is a very shady project created only to benefit creators, only 15% of coins in circulation were sold out, the rest is kept by creators [2] Moxie has personal financial interests in MobileCoin [3]: >A year ago, Platformer was the first to report that Signal was considering adding cryptocurrency payments to the platform, and it started with MobileCoin. Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike has served as an adviser to the MobileCoin cryptocurrency, which is built on the Stellar blockchain and is designed to make payments as anonymous as cash. If you're interested in monero in singal check this project https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/vd-molly-payments-stage1.html https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/vd-molly-payments-stage1... [1] We want payments in Signal to be fast, private, and work well on mobile devices. The first payments protocol we’ve added support for is a privacy focused payments network called MobileCoin, which has its own currency, MOB. https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/ https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/ [2] https://messari.io/asset/mobilecoin/profile/launch-and-initial-token-distribution https://messari.io/asset/mobilecoin/profile/launch-and-initi... [3] https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-payments-encryption-invite-regulator-scrutiny https://www.theverge.com/22872133/signal-cryptocurrency-paym...