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useful if Bitcoin apps are soon banned from normal app stores due to regulation

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Silent Payments, as proposed by Ruben Somsen, are a novel concept that allows individuals to make payments to a public identifier (commonly referred to as an "address") without revealing that identifier on the blockchain.

This fundamental feature enhances privacy and security in Bitcoin transactions."

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawik

It is rather a friendly reference to hypocrisy

I think it's fair to say that one of the founding premises of Signal is that you can't trust the server that operates the messaging service.

So the answer is that you design your service in such a way that it doesn't matter, for privacy and security purposes, what server it's running on. Once you've done that, you have the freedom to just use whatever's the most reliable and/or affordable.