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Yes, that sounds about right.

There are not a lot of people who can do crypto well, and they tend to be too weird to make good government or megacorp employees. The NSA will have people capable of doing it, but they undoubtedly have more important things to do than write a chat app.

They could hand a billion dollars to Microsoft or Amazon, who would happily take it, but would that produce a better result? Or any results at all?



>and they tend to be too weird to make good government or megacorp employees.

Or simply do not want to work for the government or a megacorp.




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