> "Moxie, as an individual, is a paid technical advisor to MobileCoin"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715013

This seems incompatible with the spirit of the quote in the article.

That's significant in this space, because it implies that he does not benefit directly[0] from speculation on MOB, and so has less incentives to get involved in a pump and dump.

What I would still like to see for more transparency:

- legal commitment from the Signal Foundation that no employee owns any MOB

- disclosure of money transfers between MobileCoin and any Signal Foundation employee

Maybe some of this information could already be extracted given the statuses of the entities involved?

[0]: he benefits indirectly because if MobileCoin stays up, he'll probably stay as a technical advisor

The article says “Marlinspike has served as a paid technical adviser for the project since its inception” in the same paragraph, so I would say the article is quite clear on the financial relationship.

Yet. There are a couple of trivial ways they could end up with loads of coins and this statement could still be true as of the date of the quote.

But does he own any shares or options in MobileCoin Inc?

Are we talking about both Signals, or just the non-profit Foundation here?

What about the LLC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation