Best side effect is no crypto spam
Cryptocurrency businesses are no longer allowed to send text messages in the US and Canada. And y’all were saying operation chockepoint 2.0 isn’t real https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045004974-Forbidden-Message-Categories-for-SMS-and-MMS-in-the-US-and-Canada
Discussion
So bitcoin companies can’t do anti-fraud or security checks because of a dumb carrier policy is good for bitcoin? Come on, grow up.
yes its good for bitcoin. Promotes self custody and companies building self custodial solutions.
SMS should never be used for security anyway. Not when numbers can be hijacked. So email with the same level of security works too.
But 2FA should use RFC6238 TOTP methods instead.