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by hiq 6y ago
I should have been clearer with the IBAN point. In particular I was not talking about people outside of the banking system. I'll respond here to most replies I got so far. What I meant is that you need the IBAN of the person you want
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by hiq 6y ago
What alternative do you suggest?
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by hiq 6y ago
> but more inconvenient than hitting a button in your bank app Sure, assuming: 1. you have the app 2. you have the IBAN (or equivalent) I'd say 1. is a good assumption for younger generations (?), but 2. is still more friction than
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by hiq 6y ago
> Signal's ultimate goal to dethrone WhatsApp I see it more like setting the baseline for the whole ecosystem. If Signal allows me to do X privately, why can't WhatsApp? To have this clout, they need to keep a non negligible ma
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by hiq 6y ago
> Advertising its opt-in nature as a feature is like advertising your cereal as asbestos free. I fail to see how, care to explain? It's opt-in as any other feature which is not the core of the app. You don't have to send sticke
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by hiq 6y ago
"Bad guys" already use Signal to communicate and some countries try to ban encryption, I'm not sure much will change here. Whether you should be able to transfer money in a private manner is a political choice. Signal is most
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by hiq 6y ago
> Signal has the reach to get plenty of beta-testers on board, enough to maybe grow it from there. I think we need a reality check here. When I check the Playstore, Signal has 50M downloads. WhatsApp has 2B. Signal is still largely the u
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by hiq 6y ago
You have a point in the case of a volatile cryptocurrency: if 1 MOB is worth USD 10 one day and USD 1 the next, nobody will want to keep their MOB, so you have one bank transfer for one MOB transfer. It sucks. If MOB becomes less volatile o
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by hiq 6y ago
Which alternative currency that fits their requirements are you suggesting?
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by hiq 6y ago
> But leveraging a huge user base from Signal (a messaging app with a sales pitch of a certain purity and no bs attitude to the problem at hand) to push a cryptocurrency payment system? > Don't tell me anyone involved in doing th
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by hiq 6y ago
> Oh, something it does very well is to waste energy. That's not the case for MobileCoin though. Energy waste does not seem to be direct a requirement by Signal to integrate a cryptocurrency, but the user friendliness and the fast t
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by hiq 6y ago
> - Why it involved hiding the server source code. My guess: to reduce the noise and speculation. Much better to deal with it now that there's something to be gained (feedback from beta testers and actual deployment). There was litt
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by hiq 6y ago
I think this point is too technical to be addressed in this blog post, and it's already addressed in technical documents / talks from MobileCoin. In short, and IIUC, no Intel SGX means a bit less privacy but is still ok. In partic
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by hiq 6y ago
> - Not be MobileCoin or any small-cap coin Why not? > - Support Bitcoin/Litecoin/Etherum/other popular and trusted coins The post explains their requirements which these cryptocurrencies don't fit. Do you take iss
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by hiq 6y ago
It would have been more interesting to read your reaction to their answer to this concern, which is: > We’ve only been testing this in beta in one country, so lots of people haven’t seen this yet and are imagining the worst. Don’t worry,
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by hiq 6y ago
> as they’re the predominant format Are they? I often read this on HN, but I'm starting to wonder if there's not a selection bias that's even bigger than I expected. Beyond the usual suspects, I've had more coding ass
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by hiq 6y ago
> Many of these charts ignore this. From https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/methodo... : > Wealth, or net worth, is the difference between the value of assets owned by households
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by hiq 6y ago
> we're always looking to lower the barrier of entry to get into PowerShell, as it can be quite jarring to someone who's used Bash their whole life (myself included). apt search powershell returns no meaningful result on Debian
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by hiq 6y ago
> For safety, key authentication and fail2ban would cover a lot. I mainly have the 1 port. Changing the port from the default 22 to something else is also recommended, if only because it makes fail2ban logs way less verbose.
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by hiq 6y ago
I started doing exactly that. I've been reluctant to contribute to nodejs (e.g. electron) projects for some time, because I just don't want to run npm on a computer with any kind of remotely private data. Lately there were just to
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by hiq 6y ago
> highly secure alternative exists in the form of matrix At least for metadata, as of now, Signal seems to provide better guarantees than Matrix. I can imagine Matrix competing with Discord and Slack, but I don't think they'll
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by hiq 6y ago
Old news: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
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by hiq 6y ago
OP wrote: > just click through the scam marketing, ICO offers and "airdrops" That's what I meant by UX. > user experience can still be confusing because a payments feature is… surprising Everything new is "surprisi
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by hiq 6y ago
> If you run a libre device without the Google Play store (non-Google android build) then the software cannot function I think you mean either of two things: 1. running the APK they build on a device without Google Service does not work
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by hiq 6y ago
You have a fix waiting as a PR for what could be OP's issue: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pull/11134
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by hiq 6y ago
> It's practically a principle of the Signal project to discourage third-party clients It depends on what you call "client". At the protocol level sure, you're supposed to behave just like any official client. But to
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by hiq 6y ago
The arguments against federation would also apply to this solution. Given that they don't like federation, it's logical that they also reject this approach for their payment solution.
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by hiq 6y ago
No, they just pushed today. They presumably didn't want to talk about MobileCoin before it was ready.
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by hiq 6y ago
Hi, I still have to read the docs more thoroughly, but given that these HN threads die out quickly, I'd rather ask now that I have the chance, so forgive me if some of these are answered in the docs: 1. how does MobileCoin make money?
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by hiq 6y ago
> distributed only in an unsigned insecure form or in a signed/verified manner only if you give up your privacy to install with Google Play or the Apple store. > Those that only run open source software like myself have no secure

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