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Comment by tialaramex

9 hours ago

You don't have to give out your phone number. You can mint an arbitrary "username" and give the username out to people.

> You don't have to give out your phone number. You can mint an arbitrary "username" and give the username out to people.

You are deliberately missing the point.

Signal are gatekeeping these new advanced security features behind a phone number wall (soon to become paywall if some posts here are to be believed).