Anybody have any experience with mobilecoin? What is the use case for it? Seems kind of pointless and a lot more tedious than just a bank transfer. Why does signal include crypto nonsense in their app (I like crypto, but just can’t see any reason why it should be integrated in the app). I’m sad that signal does not have support for 3rd party open source clients that could remove such features. Why not add support for monero instead?

    • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      The Wikipedia article and the quote don’t mention it being forked from anything. And the word has a strict code definition so if it was, it wouldn’t be hard to prove…

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Based on and fork can be used interchangeably in English, this is what the wiki article clearly says.

        If you want the full chain of pedantry: They forked the project, then refactored it into rust, then changed the protocol to include proof of stake based on steller.

        • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
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          16 days ago

          According to who and where? You just chronologically ordered things backwards from the Wikipedia article!