Signal Messenger resumed publication of server code and integrated cryptocurrency

Organization Signal Technology Foundation, Developing Protected Communication System Signal , resumed Publication Server Pass Code of the Messenger. The project code was initially opened under the AGPLV3 license, but the publication of changes in A public repository without explaining the reasons was discontinued on April 22 last year. The repository update ceased after the announcement of the intention to integrate into the Signal payment system.

Recently Testing built in Signal payments based on your own cryptocurrency Mobilecoin (MOB) developed by Moxie Marlinspike (Moxie Marlinspike), the author of the Signal protocol. At about the same time, the repositories were published accumulated over the year changing server components, including those involving the implementation of the payment system.


Cryptocurrency MobileCoin is designed to build a network of mobile payments that ensures user privacy. These users remain only in their hands and the Signal developers or infrastructure elements administrators do not have the ability to access money, the user’s balance sheet and transaction history. The payment network does not have a single control point and is based on the idea of ​​equity ownership, the essence of which is, all means of the network are formed as a set of individual shares that can be exchanged. The total amount of funds in the network is fixed and is 250 million MOB.

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