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It has some people behind it that have been successful in the past, but not at this scope. Imo there's a potential, 5% chance for major success. The fact that its bitcoin adjacent could be a big benefit in terms of getting the word out. The marketing is too good at this point, so that's a red flag in my opinion.
As a pleb, it doesn’t sound that groundbreaking to me and feels a bit deceptive. Lots of carriers now allow you to lock your sim from transfers, and many logins allow you to use an authenticator app rather than phone number. The largest benefit would be if they could maintain privacy, but from the info on their website, it doesn’t seem much better than any other carrier. Even if they don’t collect and store private data, they are no doubt using one of the big wireless carriers network which still has the ability to track every device connected to it. I could be very wrong one either of these points, if so someone please correct me, but as I see it this is just an overpriced cell service with slightly higher sim swap protection.
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lastly we have plans for further improvements, eventually pushing all traffic over a full mixnet (both user data traffic and and voice. this will defend against all location tracking. we have some interim hacks but only things that don't actually make you more of a target. hint: swapping imei and imsi repeatedly while in the same location is like trying to be subtle while you've got a full marching band following you
Hi! We're here too. Happy to answer any questions. SIM swaps happen because there are too many people at the various telcos who have the ability to make changes to your account. We restrict this to the user instead of allowing thousands of sales and support staff to do it. The way it works is that we buy wholesale minutes from the carrier and we handle the customer info. They don't see any personal info, just the MSISDN, IMSI and an IMEI. We don't care what you call yourself. Pay with bitcoin or monero and you don't need to give us any real info.
I'm Jonathan Wilkins (ex CSO at Blockstream and River) I've been doing privacy and security for just shy of 30 years. Adam Back is one of our advisors. We''d love a few minutes of your time to talk about what we're trying to achieve.
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Im an investor in the company. Worked previously with both founders at two startups. The SMS problem they solve now is real and works well. Also very excited for the work they are pursuing to build a TOR replacement that uses Lightning nodes. This will be a huge benefit to Bitcoin and anonymity / privacy online. The team understands this well as they’ve been doing this for 25yrs.