And if you are worried about Google’s involvement in this, Greyson Parrelli of the Signal team points out that the payment runs through the same zero-knowledge proof setup it uses for donations.
Looks like there is some way of decoupling the payer identity from the signal user
Oddly enough, once you make that three fiddy payment signal will now potentially have a payment method linked to your account.
If this is true that payment method can essentially be tied to a identity.
I suppose the reason they are choosing to do this is to prevent a influx of bot accounts and spammers/scammers.
I was about to say, I feel like it’s easier to get a burner phone number to sign up with than to find an anonymous way of paying them 3 bucks
Looks like there is some way of decoupling the payer identity from the signal user
I figured they must be doing something along those lines, thanks for sharing!