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Seth For Privacy
@Seth For Privacy
SO excited to reveal Radar to the world today!

We’ve been working on all of the moving parts of this launch for many months, but the core of Radar is simple. Why are the two most private things we do every day - who we talk to and what we pay for - always disconnected and surveilled?

Radar solves this by building on top of Signal’s amazing messaging protocol and network while implementing payments over Bitcoin. All of your existing Signal contacts come with you, but everyone who joins Radar can send and receive payments at a tap. This combination makes sending money to friends and family, supporting an activist or journalist, or funding a political dissident as easy as sending a message.

No need to juggle separate apps, and now we can get Bitcoin into the hands of people who just simply want a good way to transfer value. No custodians, no banks, just permissionless freedom money.

It's been a blast getting to break out beyond "just" the wallet space, and build a tool that we see a huge need for from human rights groups to "normies" and everything in between.

I'll break down more on the why we made the choices we did throughout the week on a host of podcasts, so keep an eye out for those if you want to dive deeper!

In the meantime, take a minute and go check out @Radar 🫡
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Guy Swann · 10w
This is exciting dude! Nice work
Evan · 10w
Congrats! This looks awesome, and thanks to everyone working on it
Based Truth · 10w
Radar, another tool for the elite to surveil, this time with a facade of privacy, courtesy of the same players who brought you Facebook and Google.
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 10w
So, another honeypot messaging app that lies about privacy and full-on gaslights people about being "end to end"
fade2 · 10w
Holy shit. Amazing
Pablo Xannybar · 10w
Fuck yes this is amazing bro. Will absolutely check this out.
nostrich · 10w
I do think this will be both your biggest success and your biggest mistake. Signal is less metadata resistant than SimpleX, so it will lock in Bitcoiners to Signal. With Breeze it's a custodial model that will give insights into payment flows.
Excommunicado · 10w
The only way forward is to give users a way to run their own infrastructure. Like nostr, like simplex.
Bayer · 10w
This sounds very fucking cool. Will check it out! Bravo on the launch 🎉
ابو مريم · 10w
so it's a nostr:npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8 clone but not nostr. why are we still using phone numbers? so 1900s 🫠
Maxime.B · 10w
Thanks really for the people who have a Cake Wallet account !
paul keating · 10w
Awesome
ACCOUNT_DELETED · 10w
Incredibly awesome! This brings zapping to the normies‘ world. Already nudged friends and family. Thank you, Seth, for this nice piece of work. After initial hickups, it worked finde (never had a Signal-Backup and I wanted to switch from Signal to Radar on the same device).
Meile dVPN · 10w
Should be a good time
nostrnormie · 10w
Happy for you
Another 13 Moon Woman · 10w
Nice! Cant wait to get off signal and use it!! https://npub154jjqfud0czwmeyglm4mntdd6l9dxuek8997nffrarlx5dxrdt8seg0epr.blossom.band/4e8785f246a2c531ee2f145d73b6b0b80bafe42cf3121acbc338177745afd52b.jpg
Thomas · 10w
I see a good opportunity to orange pill with this.
AU9913 · 10w
Will y'all publish to zapstore
Scudo Finanziario · 10w
🔥 GAME CHANGER! Merging private messaging with permissionless freedom money is precisely what the world needs right now. You solved a massive fragmentation problem for both privacy advocates and everyday users. Incredible work to the whole team! 👏
nik ⚡️🟠🟣 · 10w
Congrats, Seth! The only downside I see is that we are still relying on the centralized Signal servers, so not the best in case of censorship issues or restrictions due to Orwellian government regulations…
James Jesus Angleton Paranoia Culture - Paralysis creation excessive suspicion · 10w
"Radar's integration of Signal + Bitcoin payments is a smart move—privacy-focused comms and money should coexist. But adoption will hinge on UX and liquidity, not just ideology. Reminds me of how ETF flows in 2026 showed investors prioritize convenience over purity. https://theboard.world/artic...
curious@bitcoin · 10w
Nice work. Hoping to see Spaces Protocol integration for sovereign usernames.
Phaedrus · 10w
nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g this is amazing! One issue: when you invite regular Signal user to payments, it shows them MobileCoin which I’m sure isn’t compatible with LN/Radar. Not sure if it’s possible to detect and instead invite them to Radar first...
thepurpose · 10w
Onwards. 🫡
Edouard Nèvres · 7w
Hello when I log in to radar it logs me out of signal. Would be great to have it interoperate completely just adding payments