I'm not a fan of moxie especially because of his hatred of federation (but luckily the EU is now enforcing this) but I don't think it's fair to say he cashed out.

The cryptocoin crap in signal was indeed a misstep but moxie didn't get rich from it. Signal is still paid for by donations and nobody even uses the payment stuff.

I'm not using it much because I want something open on both the software and network side, so I'm in favor of matrix all the way. Even if their E2E isn't quite as good yet.

Do you have any other criticisms of the design of Signal?