The payment is currently only offered through Play Services, but more payment methods are planned for the future. This means that users who don’t have Play Services, such as people running GrapheneOS without Sandboxed Google Play, won’t be able to try the feature out just yet.

The payment uses the same zero-knowledge proofs as Signal’s donation system, so they won’t be able to correlate your payment info to you.

Really disappointing that privacyguides just repeats the information in the press release without any commentary on the privacy implications of using Play Services to pay for the service, and how ZKP does nothing to prevent law enforcement from tying a Signal account to a real identity by correlating the account creation timestamp (which Signal provides to law enforcement with a warrant).

The registration is only available on Android for now and costs a one-time fee of $2.99. The fee is meant to make it financially infeasible for spammers to create thousands of accounts and ruin Signal’s network.

The payment is currently only offered through Play Services, but more payment methods are planned for the future. This means that users who don’t have Play Services, such as people running GrapheneOS without Sandboxed Google Play, won’t be able to try the feature out just yet.

I don’t think I have placed or answered a actual phone call in a couple of years, most places I would previously call force you on to chat bots these days, guess it makes sense to move away from having phone numbers