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CpyJx 🍉We can critique the implementation, but integrating crypto aligns with Signal's core mission: "to protect free expression and enable secure global communication through open-source privacy technology".
Just as cash enables private, in-person transactions, privacy-focused cryptocurrencies can support secure, anonymous digital payments. Similarly, end-to-end encrypted chats are the digital counterpart to private, face-to-face conversations.
Source: https://signalfoundation.org/en/
@Cappyjax it's a chat app FFS. it doesn't need a mission statement to begin with. it's supposed to do one thing. and it ain't crypto.
It's cool you don't think they need one, but its basically a requirement for tax-exempt non-profits– Source: https://nonprofitlawblog.com/purpose-statement-articles-of-incorporation-nonprofit-charitable-corporation/
Look up any 501(c)(3) non-profit org, they all have one: https://501c3lookup.org/
Here's a list of 17 mission statements for easy perusing: https://donorbox.org/nonprofit-blog/mission-statement-examples
The benefits of a privacy-enabling crypto is well within their scope. That it didn't work well, was implemented poorly, or take off is irrelevant to the discussion. Be mad at something else.
@Cappyjax well shit. if the law demands it, I guess they really had no other option than implementing crypto then. lol
Thanks for replying genuinely, engaging with the nuance of my argument and not creating a weak, easily attacked caricature of my position in order to knock it down and give the illusion of refuting my original point 😊
@Cappyjax my point was that a chat app does not need a mission statement because it has an obvious singular goal, in which crypto coin is not included. if you had disagreed with that, we might have talked about what users expect from a chat app and what the feedback for mobile coin was. instead you made a technical point, that the company needs a mission statement for law reasons. but law requirements != app requirements. I made a pointed joke about you mixing up these categories.