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Several Bitcoiners, including Jack Dorsey, person reinforced their propulsion for the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to follow Bitcoin done a caller “Bitcoin for Signal” campaign, which aims to integrate Bitcoin with the Cashu protocol to alteration payments wrong the app.
“@Signalapp should usage Bitcoin,” Dorsey posted to X connected Thursday, retweeting a station from pseudonymous Bitcoin developer Cashu, who is down the Bitcoin for Signal campaign.
Bitcoin for Signal aims to instrumentality Cashu’s “Chaumian Ecash” solution, which integrates Bitcoin with the Cashu protocol to alteration Bitcoin payments connected Signal.
“Bitcoin belongs successful Signal. Cashu ecash enables genuinely backstage Bitcoin payments wrong the world’s astir trusted encryption messenger,” the Bitcoin for Signal website states.
Cashu’s transportation for Signal to follow Bitcoin. Source: Bitcoin for Signal
The run has besides been endorsed by Bitcoin developer Peter Todd, who wants Bitcoin to replace, oregon astatine slightest grow on, Signal’s existent crypto outgo solution, MobileCoin (MOB).
“I’ve been wanting to effort MobileCoin. But it’s specified a nonaccomplishment I can’t adjacent bargain any. Signal App needs to judge world and conscionable adhd Bitcoin support,” Bitcoin developer Peter Todd said.
Signal implemented MobileCoin successful April 2021; however, it has been criticized for being overly centralized with a tiny acceptable of validators.
Pseudonymous Bitcoin developer Calle and Satoshi Labs co-founder Pavol Rusnak besides threw enactment down Bitcoin for Signal.
Given Signal has astir 70 cardinal monthly progressive users, a palmy implementation could marque it a important level for peer-to-peer Bitcoin transactions.
Dorsey has antecedently argued that Bitcoin volition beryllium a nonaccomplishment if it’s lone utilized arsenic a store of worth and not for mundane payments — similar however Satoshi Nakamoto intended.
Source: Jack DorseyBitcoin wasn’t built to beryllium a privateness solution, critics argue
However, respective critics person noted that Bitcoin lacks privateness features integrated into its basal layer, which whitethorn marque it an unsuitable cryptocurrency to brace with a privacy-focused messenger app.
“Jack, wherefore usage a afloat nationalist blockchain for a privateness chat?” asked Aztec Network technologist José Pedro Sousa.
Techlore, a integer rights advocacy page, argued Bitcoin would jeopardize the privateness of Signal users.
Others suggested that Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC) would beryllium amended alternatives.
While Cashu provides a privacy-preserving solution for Bitcoin, fewer specified applications person succeeded astatine scale.
EU astir ended backstage messaging this week
The propulsion for Bitcoin-backed backstage messenger apps comes arsenic the European Union has been considering a arguable “Chat Control” instrumentality that would unit each messaging apps, including encrypted ones similar Signal and WhatsApp, to hand implicit backstage messages to authorities for the purposes of spotting kid maltreatment worldly — efficaciously breaking end-to-end encryption protections.
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Germany has refused to backmost the proposal, arguing that the wide scanning of backstage messages is unconstitutional.
The ballot has present been postponed, with different ballot acceptable for aboriginal December.
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