About this episode
Evgeny Poberezkin discusses the innovative features of SimpleX Chat, a private and secure communication protocol.
Evgeny is the founder of SimpleX Chat, a private and secure comms protocol that has a radically different approach to the concept of user identity. We discuss how SimpleX's unique transport network assigns addresses to connections instead of endpoints, why MLS is flawed, the upcoming scalable channels feature to compete with Telegram, and how the network plans to sustain itself through a model where large channels fund infrastructure. No phone numbers. Private and secure. Open and scalable. Personal blog: https://www.poberezkin.com Official website: https://simplex.chat SimpleX on Nostr: https://primal.net/simplex SimpleX on X: https://x.com/SimpleXChat EPISODE: 196 BLOCK: 941454 PRICE: 1432 sats per dollar (00:02:56) Introducing SimpleX and why Signals model falls short (00:04:48) What is SimpleX? Sovereignty and trustless design principles (00:09:21) Privacy as prerequisite for speech and society (00:13:04) From messenger to scalable channels and Telegram comparisons (00:17:27) Content privacy vs participation privacy in large groups (00:23:30) Removing identity (00:24:32) Transport layer innovation: addressing connections, not endpoints (00:29:09) SimpleX Chat as…
People in this episode
Host: ODELL
Guest: Evgeny Poberezkin
Topics covered
- private communication
- user identity
- secure messaging
- scalable channels
- privacy
- transport network
Keywords
- SimpleX Chat
- privacy
- secure communication
- user identity
- Telegram
- scalable channels
- transport network
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: SimpleX Chat, Telegram, Tor, Nostr
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