Anybody have any experience with mobilecoin? What is the use case for it? Seems kind of pointless and a lot more tedious than just a bank transfer. Why does signal include crypto nonsense in their app (I like crypto, but just can’t see any reason why it should be integrated in the app). I’m sad that signal does not have support for 3rd party open source clients that could remove such features. Why not add support for monero instead?

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    103·
    21 days ago

    Mobile coin is a useless fork of Monero. If they had any sense whatsoever, they would have just put a Monero wallet into the app instead of that crap.

        • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
          21·
          20 days ago

          The real question is to shortwavesurfer: Is it actually a Monero fork, or are they just saying the word “Monero” because it’s always on their mind?

          Because I’ve seen zero evidence of the former (after wasting my time looking), but plenty of the latter. Thus, not worth taking seriously.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            23·
            20 days ago

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileCoin

            MobileCoin’s mechanics build on Stellar (for consensus) and Monero (for privacy), using CryptoNote alongside zero-knowledge proofs to hide details of users’ transactions.[2]

            It’s a fork of the protocol written in rust, and with proof of stake.

            You don’t need to actively badger individual users for a discussion that didn’t satisfy you from 2 months ago, it doesn’t look good and it makes lemmy acrimonious. It’s petty.

            • pedroapero@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              8 days ago

              “a fork of the the protocol” does not make any sense. Do you even know what forking means?

            • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
              21·
              20 days ago

              Can you provide a citation for a claim that it is a fork?

              If you’re against being petty, lead by example and don’t tone police!

                • LWD@lemm.eeEnglish
                  11·
                  19 days ago

                  The Wikipedia article and the quote don’t mention it being forked from anything. And the word has a strict code definition so if it was, it wouldn’t be hard to prove…

                  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                    1·
                    19 days ago

                    Based on and fork can be used interchangeably in English, this is what the wiki article clearly says.

                    If you want the full chain of pedantry: They forked the project, then refactored it into rust, then changed the protocol to include proof of stake based on steller.