You can't brag about your open source server code and then stop updating it for a year.
You can't spend all day on twitter writing bullshit to attract a certain political demographic and then add a crypto wallet to a chat client.
etc etc
The tech community is seriously guilty of letting perfect be the enemy of good.
For the record, I'm not a huge fan of the crypto wallet thing at all but I just don't use it.
Why not, if it solves payments between Signal users (believe the Signal-MobileCoin integration, disregarding Moxie's involvement in both for a second, is a direct response to the now-defunct Libra/Deim)? Personally, I see MobileCoin / wallets as a genuine path to monetization for the Signal Foundation. Though, it remains to be seen if it is any successful.
You just used "closed server source code" as an argument against telegram? I also agree that it doesn't matter at all. But then why trashtalk telegram?