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I switched to signal and got few people to switch too, then they started their shit coin(MOB). IMO Signal Messenger is just a way for that company to reach their shit coin goals. Uninstalled and never recommending that again.

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I remember many people being pissed off when these features were announced some months ago.

As far as I can tell, nothing really happened afterwards. I use Signal on a daily basis and haven't noticed any coin-related functionalities. Either they were canceled, haven't been released yet or they're just buried somewhere deep and not advertised.

Do you have a different experience?

MOB is in beta and I think getting moved (if not already) to main soon. But it is non-intrusive and you won't notice it unless you look for it. People are just complaining about a feature that you have to look for. I'm not a fan of MOB and how the situation was handled, but I also think the reactions people are having are a bit over the top.

It's in beta, you can enable it in settings.

It's still a pain to buy MOB in the US so it's not that usable in the states. It would have been interesting to me if they just used Zcash instead of rolling their own, but I'm not sure what's supposed to be special about MOB vs. Zcash.

I also don't think it's that big of a deal.

I'd love Zcash (forced private transactions). But honestly I'd also like if we could use different currencies. My dream was that you could send cash and they would just use MOB as the intermediate transaction (so your bank would just see a transaction to/from Signal and not who you were sending/receiving to/from). But that also has technical challenges and legal issues so I understand why not. I think a multi-currency wallet is the next best option imo.

Yeah, my long term hope for this stuff is that Urbit succeeds and then a lot of the UX here gets fixed by that and all of these apps become redundant and unnecessary. I'm definitely in the minority there but I think there's a future path where that's possible and works well.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Telegram? They had a thing called Telegram Open Platform or something (TOP rings a bell for some reason)

Signal has some coin

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

I think it's https://mobilecoin.com/

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