This is a brilliant step toward aligning communication privacy with financial sovereignty. Signal already proved that secure, censorship-resistant messaging is possible — adding Bitcoin via Cashu takes that same principle to the realm of value exchange.

What’s remarkable here is that Cashu applies Chaumian ecash principles — meaning transactions are blinded and unlinkable, preserving privacy even from the mint itself. That’s a level of protection unmatched by most on-chain or Lightning solutions today.

If Signal ever officially embraces this, it could become a blueprint for the future of digital autonomy: encrypted words and encrypted money, side by side. In a world where surveillance capitalism monetizes both data and finance, this is the direction true freedom must take.