• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      1 day ago

      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