White Noise on Nostr: A phone number isn't an identity. It's a billing record with a SIM attached. Every ...
A phone number isn't an identity. It's a billing record with a SIM attached. Every time an app requires one to sign up, it's not verifying who you are. It's verifying who can be invoiced, traced, or cut off.
These are not the same thing.
Published at
2026-04-22 16:16:33 UTCEvent JSON
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