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My biggest worry is donationg == ties you to the messaging platform, granted that your telecom/isp and most likely operating system on phone knows you have it installed via the play/app stores is more indicative of something sinister.

then they link this paper - https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1416.pdf which, on one level is great - they're open about the account credential scheme they wish to do.

On the other level, it's a level of complexity.

Yes, "nothing to fear, nothing to hide" and it's on your phone daily - and eh.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...

Then with this in app payment - the only supported crypto is mobilecoin. https://www.mobilecoin.com/

Granted, I don't know much about it, and I do understand the on-ramp for bitcoin/monero/eth/ltc is not as easy and probably as much tracable.

So, after all this banter, it just comes down to being anonymous is a bit hard indeed. :)

Not against paying, not against supporting signal, it's just it is a tricky problem all around.




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