{"id":22927,"date":"2025-04-10T18:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/jack-dorsey-urges-signal-to-integrate-bitcoin-payments\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:15:27","slug":"jack-dorsey-urges-signal-to-integrate-bitcoin-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/jack-dorsey-urges-signal-to-integrate-bitcoin-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey Urges Signal to Integrate Bitcoin Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Block CEO Jack Dorsey has endorsed the proposal to integrate peer-to-peer Bitcoin payments into the Signal messenger.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">true. signal should use bitcoin for p2p payments <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kGLykl0i6r\">https:\/\/t.co\/kGLykl0i6r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 jack (@jack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1910117042147283350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur quoted a tweet from a developer known as Calle, who described the potential integration as a &#8220;stunning proof of concept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;It would be perfect for electronic money, as Signal already provides an extremely confidential communication channel for exchanging tokens,&#8221; the programmer noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other industry leaders, including Lightspark co-founder David Marcus, also supported the idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Agreed. All non-transactional apps should connect to Bitcoin and use it as TCP\/IP for money. This is what we\u2019ve been relentlessly building at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lightspark?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lightspark<\/a> alongside industry peers, and it\u2019s prime time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/va63vwcqLx\">https:\/\/t.co\/va63vwcqLx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Marcus (@davidmarcus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidmarcus\/status\/1910172951074525329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Agreed. All non-transactional apps should connect to Bitcoin and use it as <span data-descr=\"a set of rules for how data moves across the internet\" class=\"old_tooltip\">TCP\/IP<\/span> for money,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Founded in 2014, Signal offers encrypted messaging, voice, and video communication services. Since 2021, the messenger has supported payments in the ERC20 token MobileCoin from the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentz.com\/blog\/welcome-to-sentz\">Sentz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/corybates1895\/status\/1910119351631667556\">some users<\/a>, this initiative by the messenger has been unsuccessful. <\/p>\n<p>However, critics pointed to Bitcoin&#8217;s low transaction speed, high volatility, and lack of privacy, suggesting the integration of privacy-focused Monero into Signal instead.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, one theory suggested that Jack Dorsey <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/jack-dorsey-alleged-to-be-bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto\">is the creator of Bitcoin<\/a> under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Block CEO Jack Dorsey has endorsed the proposal to integrate peer-to-peer Bitcoin payments into the Signal messenger. true. signal should use bitcoin for p2p payments https:\/\/t.co\/kGLykl0i6r \u2014 jack (@jack) April 9, 2025 The entrepreneur quoted a tweet from a developer known as Calle, who described the potential integration as a &#8220;stunning proof of concept.&#8221; &#8220;It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1198,1330,1138,1789],"class_list":["post-22927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-payments","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-opinions","tag-signal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"181","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}