{"id":35384,"date":"2021-01-26T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35384"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:04:21","slug":"media-report-on-testing-of-cryptocurrency-payments-in-signal-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-report-on-testing-of-cryptocurrency-payments-in-signal-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Media report on testing of cryptocurrency payments in Signal messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The privacy-focused messaging app Signal has allocated resources to test internal cryptocurrency payments, according to Platformer founder Casey Newton.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote twitter-tweet is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\uddf5 Today\u2019s issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/platformer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@platformer<\/a> is a look at the battle inside Signal. The company is developing features that would make it vulnerable to abuse \u2014 and employees are sounding the alarm <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7KotVpoQWK\">https:\/\/t.co\/7KotVpoQWK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaseyNewton\/status\/1353871977686069248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Newton, Signal conducted an experiment with the MobileCoin token \u2014 developed by Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike. In 2018, the project team raised $30 million from the crypto exchange Binance.<\/p>\n<p>Sources suggested that integrating the token would attract the attention of regulators and unscrupulous users. Marlinspike described working with MobileCoin as &#8216;research&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;If we really decided to add cryptocurrency payments to Signal, we would have taken care to think this through carefully,&#8221; said the platform&#8217;s founder.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, former employees told Newton that the company is actively developing the necessary protocols to integrate MobileCoin.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021 Signal <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/whatsapp-troubles-150-million-for-ryuk-operators-and-other-cybersecurity-news\">grew its user base<\/a> amid changes to WhatsApp&#8217;s privacy policy. In a week the number of downloads of the messaging app rose by 4,200%.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, EU authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/media-eu-to-consider-document-requiring-messaging-services-to-decrypt-messages\">adopted a resolution<\/a> obliging messaging operators to create keys to monitor chats and messages protected by end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n<p>For details on why governments seek access to private communications, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/end-to-end-encryption-under-threat-how-and-why-governments-seek-access-to-our-messages\">read ForkLog&#8217;s piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The privacy-focused messaging app Signal has allocated resources to test internal cryptocurrency payments, according to Platformer founder Casey Newton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2088,1789,465],"class_list":["post-35384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-mobilecoin","tag-signal","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384","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=35384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35385,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35384\/revisions\/35385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}