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Let's see if she can get rid of this ridiculous MobileCoin that has somehow embedded itself into my Signal app. I won't hold my breath.
by andrewinardeer 4y ago
Let's see if she can get rid of this ridiculous MobileCoin that has somehow embedded itself into my Signal app. I won't hold my breath.
- aorth 4y agoDoes anyone actually use it? I seriously wonder why they put it in there. Moxie doesn't strike me as the type of guy who would fall for this cryptocurrency nonsense, so I'm seriously wondering if anyone uses it. The Signal project should do some case studies if so. For example: some farmers use it to pay for petrol in India, or some students from Myanmar use it to send money back home, etc.
- tablespoon 4y ago> I seriously wonder why they put it in there. Doesn't Telegram have some kind of payments features (I don't use it, so I don't know). Maybe it was an attempt at feature parity.
- FabHK 4y agoIndeed. Some five years ago, one could have excused a venture into cryptocurrencies as idealistic support of some bold, pathbreaking, liberating, enabling technology. Today, not so much.
- illiac786 4y agoI like the idea of anonymous payments, although I fully understand how alluring this is to criminals as well. MobileCoin has significantly lower environmental impact (PoS) and good anonymity features. Technically, I don't see what there is not to like, and no one is forced to use it? I would not excuse a "buzz word" feature, but I do not think that is one, I think it has a lot of potential.
- dividuum 4y agoHopefully. Got donor’s remorse from that decision and became hesitant recommending signal as a result.