Many bitcoiners, including Jack Dorsey, have reinforced their push for privacy-focused messaging signal to adopt Bitcoin through a new “Bitcoin for Signal” campaign, which aims to integrate Bitcoin with the cashu protocol to enable in-app payments.
“@SignalApp should use bitcoin,” Dorsey posted At X on Thursday, retweeting a post from the pseudonymous Bitcoin developer Cashu, who is behind the Bitcoin for Signal campaign.
Bitcoin for Signal aims to implement Cashu’s “Chaumian Ecash” solution, which integrates Bitcoin with the cashu protocol to enable Bitcoin payments on signal.
“Bitcoin belongs to signal. Cashu Ecash enables truly private bitcoin payments within the world’s most trusted messenger,” the Bitcoin for Signal website state.
The campaign has also been endorsed by Bitcoin developer Peter Todd, who wants Bitcoin to replace, or at least expand, the current signal payment solution, MobileCoin (Mob).
“I wanted to try MobileCoin. But it was such a failure that I couldn’t buy it. said.
Signal implemented MobileCoin in April 2021; However, it has been criticized for being overly centralized to a small set of validators.
Pseudonymous Bitcoin Developer Street and co-founder of Satoshi Labs Paul Rusnak also threw support behind Bitcoin for the signal.
Given that Signal has nearly 70 million monthly active users, a successful implementation could make it a significant platform for peer-to-peer bitcoin transactions.
Dorsey previously argued that Bitcoin would be a failure if it was only used as a store of value and not for daily payments – as Satoshi Nakamoto intended.
Bitcoin was not built to be a privacy solution, critics argued
However, many critics have noted that Bitcoin lacks privacy features built into its base layer, which could make it an unsuitable cryptocurrency to pair with a privacy-focused Messenger app.
“Jack, why use a completely public blockchain for a privacy chat?” question Aztec Network Engineer José Pedro Sousa.
Techlore, a digital rights advocacy page, Argued Bitcoin will threaten the privacy of signal users.
Others suggested Monero (XMR) and Zcash (Zec) would be better alternatives.
While Cashu provides a privacy-preserving solution for Bitcoin, few such applications have succeeded at scale.
The EU largely ended private messaging this week
The push for private messenger apps to be supported Provide private messages in end-to-end encryption protection.
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Germany refused to return the proposal, arguing that mass scanning of private messages was unconstitutional.
Today’s vote has been postponed, with another set of votes for early December.
Magazine: Delayed
