Elon Musk on Sunday announced That a new version of XChat’s direct -direct exchange feature (DM) was released with support for features such as messages, encryption and the ability to share files, along with audio and video support.
New features are not yet widely available, such as Xchat Only recently started Beta tests between a selected group of users. However, Musk said the X group expects to bring Xchat to all users at some point this week, unless they are facing scaling problems during development.
In a series of Posts X, Musk as well famous That the update of Xchat has been built on rust with “Bitcoin-style” and “whole new architecture” encryption. It is not clear what it means by Bitcoin -type encryption, since Bitcoin itself cannot be described as “encrypted”. (Bitcoin uses Cryptography and Public Key signatures for its safety.)
As a result, some hectare discussion if Musk uses terminology simply as marketing, if he misinterprets encryption or if he used the wrong word – maybe to say “cryptography”.
Owner X has often spoken The desire to make the X DMS a challenge to encrypted platforms such as the signal and imessage. However, the call of the XChat service with only “Bitcoin” encryption “calls into question whether it is really a possible competitor.
In addition, musk communal In x that Xchat users can now make audio and video without phone number on all platforms.
Before this launch, X said he was going to work on encrypted DMS, probably because the Xchat will soon replace the older system.
Unfortunately for X users, the service faced some significant volatility last week or so, as multiple holidays let users be able to browse schedules and use other features, including Xchat.
