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Re:Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cry... by hn8788 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:18PM (#26719872)
The CEO said:

> I love Signal and I started MobileCoin to help fund their work.

I don't see how it's a conspiracy theory that this is a backdoor way of funding Signal when the CEO literally says that MobileCoin was created as a way to fund Signal.

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Re:Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cry... by Klonoar on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:50PM (#26720060)
Yeah, I don't really see anything particularly wrong with that. I'd be more bothered by it if Signal wasn't a nonprofit.

Is it potentially a bad business model? Yeah. Is it necessarily some backdoor funding deal? I dunno, I don't really buy it.

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