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What a handwavy article full of stuff that's not addressing the real issue in discussion; collusion with MobileCoin.

WhatsApp management must be really happy with this sudden move from Signal. Signal has lots of detractors who would like to discredit it, and Moxie and co. just handed it on a platter to them.

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Although the relationship isn't clear and not clarified I find the article does a good job at addressing why they chose MobileCoin - the list of requirements.

Generally people probably wouldn't be so hostile about making a new cryptocurrency in general, there's well over 1000, but premining and bring up front about the premine is very important info.

Many of my friends and family moved back to WhatsApp after the massive two day down time Signal experienced after the huge inflow.

That too was so mysterious and moxie never gave a proper explanation why it took them so long to recover the service.

He didn't? I'm pretty sure I saw one, the explanation had something to do with a retry strategy stomping the servers IIRC.

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