Signal tests payments in the UK using MobileCoin –
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Encrypted chat app Signal is adding payments to the services it provides, a long-expected move and one the company is taking its time on. Just as Signal doesn’t have any kind of access to the messages you send or calls you make, your payments are totally private. All of a sudden you’ve given your friend a Benjamin (or perhaps now, in the U.K., a Turing) for no good reason, or that the sandwich has depreciated precipitously since lunchtime. Speaking to Wired, Signal co-founder Moxie Marlinspike envisioned an automatic trade-out system, though he is rarely so free with information like that if it is something under active development. While there is some risk that getting involved with cryptocurrency, with the field’s mixed reputation, may dilute or pollute the goodwill Signal has developed as a secure and disinterested service provider, the team there seems to think it’s inevitable.
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