Sunday Elon Musk announcement XChat, a new version of X’s Direct Messaging (DM) functionality, was deployed with support for voice and video call support, as well as features such as file loss, encryption and file sharing.
New features are not widely available yet, like Xchat I’ve started very recently Beta testing between user selection groups. However, Musk said the X-Team hopes to bring XChat to all users this week, unless they encounter scaling issues during deployment.
In a series of X posts, Musk also It’s attracting attention The updated version of Xchat is that it is built on rust with “Bitcoin Style” encryption and “all-new architecture.” Given Bitcoin itself, it’s not clear what he means with Bitcoin-style encryption I can’t explain As “encryption”. (Bitcoin uses public key encryption and signatures for security purposes.)
As a result, Some teeth Discussion Is it? Masks, like marketing, simply use the term if you misunderstood encryption or use the wrong word, simply means “encryption.”
X owner has it Frequently It was spoken I want X’s DM to be a challenger to encrypted platforms such as Signal and Imessage. However, calling XChat to a service that only has “Bitcoin-style encryption” raises doubts whether it is truly a potential competitor.
Furthermore, musk Share X now allows XChat users to create audio and video calls without a phone number on all platforms.
Prior to this launch, X said it was pausing work on encrypted DMS, possibly because Xchat replaces the old system soon.
Unfortunately for X users, the service has faced a great deal of instability over the past week or so. Multiple outages prevented users from viewing the timeline and were unable to use other features, including XChat.
