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by 411111111111111 1362 days ago
https://github.com/oxen-io

Seems to be a fork from Signal by oxenio. It's selling point seems to be the crypto currency relation?

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More decentralized and censorship resistant than Signal, which that is sitting on Google's servers. Google has the ability to shut Signal down if they wanted to or if asked to by the authorities, since Signal is helping others evade sanctions illegally without a license.

Signal also has a private cryptocurrency attached to it, most definitely used by criminals, scammers and even pump and dumped by the founders which one of them are the founders of Signal. (Yes. Moxie is part of it.)

Yup, they are selling usernames for $