Nrbelex

Replying to myself, on second thought, I genuinely think the point is the public gets these messages so it has a constant reminder of how dangerous the world is for law enforcement.

According to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, "Similar to the Amber Alerts that many are familiar with, Blue Alerts will enable authorities to warn the public when there is actionable information related to a law enforcement officer who is missing, seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, or when there is an imminent credible threat to an officer."

Is this intended to raise some sort of posse and encourage individuals to enter and resolve dangerous situations themselves? Under what scenario would a "blue alert" be useful? It seems like these alerts should go to other police officers rather than the public.

> "9. Bob's MobileCoin node sends Bob's client a message, which can then calculate the private key that corresponds to the generated one-time public key."

>" 10. Bob has now successfully received a payment."

If I'm reading this correctly, Bob's client (e.g. mobile app) must be in contact with the node for his address to receive the payment. This is pretty different from what I think will be Mobilecoin's closest competitors (at least from a UX standpoint), Venmo, Google Wallet, etc.

DDOSing Bob's mobile device or otherwise preventing access to the node would, at least temporarily, prevent the transaction from going through. Are the funds in purgatory during that period? If that client never gets in contact with the node, does the transaction ever get reversed, allowing the sender to regain control of the funds?

There are probably a host of other repercussions I haven't thought through yet. The idea of a cryptocoin as easy to use as Venmo/Signal is definitely intriguing.