it is so, so trust-damaging that Signal still has this in their UI, and it will only get moreso as the crypto ecosystem sinks ever deeper into its swamp
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JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 01:39:06 JST JP - Rich Felker repeated this.
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JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 03:35:47 JST JP it suggests a belief that the overlap of "people who want to send messages to one another securely" and "people who want to exchange cryptocurrency" is much, much larger than it really is. i think reality is against them there
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JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 03:35:57 JST JP "but what if people want to donate to an abortion fund but live in a state that is trying to eliminate the right to it? but what if people want to donate to a BDS movement in a state/nation that's criminalized doing so?" - these are great use cases! they are important enough that connecting them to a massively unstable, oligarch-controlled fraud industry is far across a moral red line.