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SLP268 Peter Todd - Should Signal Have Used Bitcoin Instead?
Season 1
Episode 268
Published 5 years, 2 months ago
Description
Peter Todd, Bitcoin expert and cryptocurrency consultant joins me on the show to talk about Signal’s recent decision to use MobileCoin rather than Bitcoin. Is Signal selling out? We talk about why MobileCoin is centralised, why it was a bad choice, and why they should have used Bitcoin and Lightning instead. We also talk about directions with private messaging going forward.
Peter Todd links:
- Twitter:@peterktodd
- Mastodon
- Website: PeterTodd.org
Sponsors:
- Swan Bitcoin
- Hodl Hodl Lend
- Compass Mining
- Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
- CypherSafe (code LIVERA)
- CoinKite.com (code LIVERA)
Stephan Livera links: