i never heard of them before, but launching with an NFT makes me less of a fan. at the end of the day, they're still an MVNO. so im curious how their privacy and security efforts work at the carrier level. they may be unable to modify customer data, but does that also mean that Verizon cannot either?
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my phone number was sold by Verizon and ATT and TMobile in the past, my number was not sold by Google Fi which is an MVNO. I know this because I looked myself up on truepeoplesearch and there are legal cases with these wireless carriers for selling location data and ph numbers. Also fi has strong protection against sim swaps, account secured by security key through Google account. Maybe not as good as cloaked but better than the big 3 in my opinion. I'm looking into cloaked, looks interesting.
Hi Derek, We operate on the T-Mobile network but they do not have access to or visibility on any of our customer data. The MNO (in this case T-mobile) will still see what towers your device and SIM are connecting to but will not see any of your customer data. Also, the NFT was an attempt introduce the ethereum NFT community to the ability of liquid to accomplish the same (albeit useless) NFT functionality on the Bitcoin blockchain using layer 2 tech. We didn't end up doing it finally because the nuance wrt what we were doing was lost on most (hence your comment). Hope that helps.
Appreciate the response. Thank you.
The NFT thing was a joke and our timing was terrjble. We were going to launch it at consensys. We had a bunch of the top bored apes, crypto punks, etc all glitched out (but recognizable) and nearly ready to go on raretoshi when the bottom fell out of the NFT market (and crypto generally) after the Fed hiked rates and Celcius collapsed, etc.
