But users also have legitimate reasons to want more transparency into both source-code & strategy.
Whether such secrecy best serves the users & the cause of private messaging is an open question.
It isn't about cryptocurrency at all. It's about trust.
The relationship between mobilecoin and signal isn't even clear as far as I can tell. You're just asked to look at an obvious cash grab and be willing to accept it as normal operating procedure, and then expected to trust your most private communications to the same individuals that won't reveal their true intentions.