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by dragonelite 1592 days ago
Yeah somehow those crypto expert on social media don't even think about it, when they shout bitcoin will fix this.
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To be fair there are some cc* that try to address this. Apparently signal was forced to choose the relatively unknown MobileCoin exactly to avoid this problem.

*cryptocurrency is too long

> cc*

That’s “credit card”. We’ve already lost “crypto”(graphy), let’s avoid deliberately giving away other common shorthands.