it's really sad to see smart people i respect and admire both:
a) not understand that free and uncensorable payments are essential to a free society, just like free speech
and
b) shit on the people who are implementing same
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/wtf-signal-adds-cryptocurrency-support.html
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/04/signal-hops-on-the-dunning-krugerrand-bandwagon/
these people got my respect in the first place by actually shipping work and being right. now they're just old and repeating falsehoods which are obvious from reading the code.
@sneak JWZ has some good points though.
@arh sometimes he does, but most of the time he's just got a position, and he's got his choir, and he's going to preach to them and they're going to cheer him on appreciatively and facts aren't going to enter into the matter. it's a lot of standard california anti-liberty stuff. he uses "libertarian" as a slur, for example.
@sneak uh, that hurts.