I tried signal, but wasn’t keen on the user interface, and was much harder to get friends over to use than telegram. Telegram feels very similar to WhatsApp which I think most people like.
In order to try to make the value of Facebook’s digital currency stable, the company is looking to peg its value to a basket of established currencies, including the US dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen
Pegs always break. That’s a fundamental of financial systems. Stability can be improved by ‘backing’ (eg with a resource such as global data storage) but pegs are almost gauranteed to fail. Markets love to break them because that brings massive profits to a few.
Upon release of SAFE-Fleming someone @maidsafe (@dugcampbell perhaps) should try to hook up for an interview with CryptoZombie and/or ThatMartiniGuy on YouTube. Both popular youtubers that have a growing audience. Just a suggestion.
More importantly, all of us here are bound to personally know at least one or two friends with an exceptionally broad social network. If all of us alerted those few, it could bootstrap the revolution.
This sounds like a way github can skim off all those recurring payments rather than people directly supporting those projects. skim because they charge a %age of each payment just like youtube do for people who pay channels. 30% in youtube’s case.
