I looked into hushed. did not get good vibes re: how safe/legit their set of available numbers might be, but I suspect that's just a shortfall in my understanding of that space. is this just voip in another costume? it would be interesting if a company would truly step up to sell real privacy protection, with "we will protect you, and here's our <resource-backed> promise to pay you if we fail". actively shielding and protecting you, their treasured client, as their paid service, not just a "well, we'll try, but you know the interwebs these days" lame-ass hint-promise... what would I pay for such protection? hard to guess, but that's because it's hard to trust any such unproven biz models? what if there was a "I'll ramp up to pay more as you prove your value" trust-earning subscription model? with a known-up-front fees cap, but also a known rev-growth path to help motivate them to keep their promises? the power of aligned incentives!!! and yeah, as noted before, I'm known to be wildly idealistic... that's why I'm here!

In a nutshell, I would say that our value prop is as follows: 1) Solved SIM swap attacks by only allowing subscribers to modify their accounts and only after they authenticate using proven open source authentication technologies. 2) We accept Bitcoin and were founded by long time privacy advocates (both co-founders worked at Zeroknowledge Systems in 2000 along side Dr Adam Back and other privacy pioneers). 3) We offer multiple non KYC purchase options. Finally, our parent company is working on the Cloaked Network (An open source Bitcoin incentivized decentralized private network that will hopefully replace Tor some day).

Are you going to provide non-US numbers? Many apps and things are censored/blocked in the US and they use numbers as verification.

Hushed. Over a year now On de-google phone.

silent.link was data only last time I checked. They plan to offer voice soonish iirc. We expect to be competitive on price.

as I understand it, hushed is a voip number that forwards to your device. that doesn't work for a lot of services. cloaked wireless gives you an actual mobile number, with unlimited voice, text and data (@256k/s) you choose your high speed data level.

The only way I'd use @npub1mftv...rkl3 (p2p like LocalBitcoins, but with a marketplace as well) is by using one of these services. I guess @npub1l0mk...x3xd is the way to go.. @npub1mftv...rkl3 requires a cell phone number to get an account.