Board Changes at Signal
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Board Changes at Signal
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#2If nothing else, I've learned a man with the name "Moxie Marlinspike" exists today.
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#3If nothing else, I've learned a man with the name "Moxie Marlinspike" exists today.
They’re kinda legendary - and I can’t deny having a cool name does help with getting people to recognise you.
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#4With moxie gone, will signal remove the cryptocoin shit?
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#5Glad to hear Moxie's out. As a reminder, Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2].
0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of that article)
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013 (comment from founder of MobileCoin)
2: https://www.theverge.com/22249391/signal-app-abuse-messaging...
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#7Glad to hear Moxie's out. As a reminder, Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2]. 0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of…
I'm not "glad to hear Moxie's out" -signal wouldn't exist without his work.
I agree the crypto was stupid. But, it was a product of the times, and I believe it grew (from scant evidence) out of concern about independent funding longterm for the project. It didn't work: it rebounded badly.
I use signal every day. I'm glad it exists, I'm glad he did the work. I like Meredith, and I think the new board needs to be given time to bed in and for us to see how things eventuate.
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#8With moxie gone, will signal remove the cryptocoin shit?
If you build a truly private e2ee communications system, it is a little bit silly not to include a payments feature, as it's just an e2ee messaging use case (like stickers, or reactions, or stories, etc).
There are lots of useful apps you can build atop e2ee messaging: location sharing, payments, group chats, secret sharing, etc.
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#9With moxie gone, will signal remove the cryptocoin shit?
If you build a truly private e2ee communications system, it is a little bit silly not to include a payments feature, as it's just an e2ee messaging use case (like stickers, or reactions, or stories, etc). There are lots of useful apps you can build atop e2ee messaging: location sharing, payments, group chats, secret sharing, etc.
It is silly to include it, I have other apps to do that without using cryptocurrency. It was a MobileCoin grift.
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#10Glad to hear Moxie's out. As a reminder, Signal didn't publish the source for their server-side from 20 April 2020 to 6 April 2021 [0] while they secretly added a cryptocurrency payment system to which Moxie was a paid technical advisor [1], which Moxie denied they were doing in January 2021 [2]. 0: https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa... (source was published shortly after the publication of…
I don't want Signal to have payments (or to axe SMS support). Those are both stupid things for Signal to do, which make it worse for me and worse in general. However, "what if [author's political opponents] used Signal?!" is a revolting hook to hang that hit piece on.