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Referring to cryptocurrencies as "crypto" is wrong. Crypto means cryptography.

Including the response of JHH in the comments again.

Looks like the story is misleading, as a forum post on the source indicates [1]. [1] https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37282

What are the relevant scenario's for using this? I think it might be useful for IoT devices, but other than that?

This has been discussed many times before on HN. Posts range back from 2+ years ago.

Why do people think "public" does not mean the same as "public" on a website? Essentially there is nothing different here..

I don't get why people make such a big problem about this. First of all, the privacy issues from WhatsApp have been discussed many times before. Yes, the default option "public" is…

WhatsApp does monitor their network and API calls being performed. This way they ban spammers and fake clients going on the WhatsApp network. I suspect they use some form of Machin…