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Re:Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cry... by RL_Quine on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:44PM (#26715697)
> "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.

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Re:Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cry... by hiq on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:17PM (#26716845)
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

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Re:Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cry... by mfsch on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:46AM (#26722492)
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.
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