There is no good reason to risk any amount. It is ridiculously idiotic; like having a wallet on the outside of your car to pay for parking tickets... sure, it's a tiny bit more convenient and as long as you're either driving or parking your car in a garage most of the time it's unlikely the money will be stolen, but who the fuck thinks it's a good idea? Also note the risk of the reverse; Cryptocurrencies are a juicy target and lot's of code has been found exploitable over the years. I'd be just as worried about an exploit in that part leading to a breach into the messenger security... It is a fundamentally stupid idea to combine these.
peppermint@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
You have a point, but again you have a money's worth stake on your messenger of choice, as well as the platform. No doubt they have a lot of holes, but credit card or password stealing is the same thing. You totally forget that coins like ethereum, bitcoin and such are traceable, so there is no way to cash out stolen money.
geotechland@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I think having payment in the messaging app will be expected as it is becoming the norm. But I don't like that signal is partnering up with a private crypto coin corporation.
Is the answer necessarily cryptocurrencies? Maybe a stablecoin version or just some different intermediate way to send payments privately that doesnt invovle cryptos?
peppermint@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
There is GNU Taler from GNUNet project, and hashgraph (discussion here https://libredd.it/rty0vt), the main advantage of monero and crypto more generally is to have a way to send money.