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Signal, the cross-platform encrypted messaging service is facing criticism this week, after the company Signal Messenger told the public it was integrating the cryptocurrency mobilecoin. Moreover, controversy surrounds the company\u2019s founder and CEO Matthew Rosenfeld, known as \u2018Moxie Marlinspike\u2019 over his previous ties with the Mobilecoin project.<\/strong><\/p>\n During the last week, Signal Messenger<\/a> has been under fire for integrating the privacy-centric cryptocurrency mobilecoin (MOB<\/a>). The subject has been trending on social media<\/a> and forums as a number of crypto advocates are not pleased with the choice.<\/p>\n According to the MOB project\u2019s website, the entire distributed ledger is \u201copaque\u201d as \u201cindividual transactions are cryptographically protected, and the network uses forward-secrecy.\u201d Since Signal\u2019s announcement MOB has gained over 450% since then and today it\u2019s up 20% during the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n MOB is currently trading for $58 per unit and the trading platform FTX Exchange is the most active market trading it today. Controversy is tied to the relationship Marlinspike allegedly had with Mobilecoin prior to the integration. Word on the street is Marlinspike was simply a MOB advisor but documents indicate<\/a> the Signal founder may have played a CTO role.<\/p>\n In addition to that controversy, the project has been accused<\/a> of being centralized, a copy of monero (XMR<\/a>), and 100% pre-mined as well. A pre-mine is when the network\u2019s entire supply of native tokens is created right away and developers and early investors have access to it all.<\/p>\n \u201cMobilecoin is 100% premined,\u201d the Reddit user and r\/cryptocurrency forum moderator u\/samsunggalaxyplayer<\/a> said. \u201c100% of the supply was created in 16 outputs that can be distributed however the initial founders like. There is extremely limited information about how they will be distributed, though it\u2019s highly likely that the founders will keep some for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/ins> <\/ins> <\/p>\n The Redditor also said that Mobilecoin team members like to \u201cdiscredit Monero wherever they can.\u201d On Twitter, software developer Pokkst spoke out against the Mobilecoin project as well. A few more things about Mobilecoin,\u201d the developer tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWhen Mobilecoin is run with Intel SGX, user\u2019s private keys are transmitted to remote nodes and stored in their secure enclave. Lol. Basically Intelcoin. It\u2019s 100% premined, with a hardcoded 0.01 MOB fee per tx. Currently, that\u2019s $0.66 per [transaction]. All [transaction] fees currently go to Mobilecoin Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n Pokkst added:<\/p>\n The creator of Signal has a huge stake in Mobilecoin, so Moxie is pumping his bags by using Signal.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Following the Mobilecoin announcement, people who disliked Signal\u2019s integration with MOB started to recommend the encrypted messaging service called Session<\/a>. The Session project leverages a blockchain and is a Signal fork. Despite the documentation showing Moxie as the CTO, Mobilecoin CEO Joshua Goldbard recently said<\/a> that \u201cMoxie was never CTO.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Relationship Between Mobilecoin and Signal<\/h2>\n
\u2018Private Keys Stored on a Secure Enclave,\u2019 Mobilecoin CEO Denies Marlinspike Was a CTO<\/h2>\n
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