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Signal is working on registration without a phone number. But what form will it take? (aboutsignal.com)
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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 36 points 3 days ago

GitHub commit d7447b1 states that “accounts without phone numbers can never get phone numbers, and accounts with them can never lose them”.

So you’ll have to register a new account if you want to decouple your number.