Alain Brenzikofer @brenzi5 will talk at @Web3summit on June 19: SimpleX Community Credits: Making Privacy Profitable.
Big thank you to @Web3foundation for the opportunity and for their help with our proof of concept on @Polkadot that Alain built - the vision is getting real! 👇
🆔Starmer's plans for child-locked devices is a Trojan horse for digital ID
"The only way to escape Starmer’s Great British Firewall and get regular internet access is to undergo a digital ID check on the device to register yourself as an adult user.
Convenient, perhaps, for a Prime Minister who has failed to get a digital ID system through the front door" - @silkiecarlo
ALT The Telegraph - Silkie Carlo: Labour's spyware plan for phones is straight out of North Korea
Scanning devices is not a solution for safety - it's a backdoor that endangers everybody.
It violates many laws, including in the UK, and is technically unenforceable. Such ideas were rejected before and must be rejected now.
Just listed on NULL_ROUTE: #SimpleX Chat. 🔒
No phone number. No username. No user ID — not even a random one.
The only messenger where even the servers can't tell who you're talking to. Open-source, Tor-ready, self-hostable.
→ cetoc.org/routen.html?cat=to…@SimpleXChat#Privacy
Most private messengers encrypt the message.
@SimpleXChat hides the identity, the graph, and — with Tor — the route.
No phone number.
No username.
No user ID.
No central social graph.
Optional Tor/Orbot routing.
That’s why SimpleX is different.
Signal protects your chats.
Telegram hides only Secret Chats by default.
XChat encrypts content but still leaves metadata visible to X.
SimpleX goes deeper:
The server doesn’t know who you are.
The network doesn’t need your phone number.
And with Tor, even the route can be harder to trace.
Encryption protects the message.
SimpleX protects the map.
ALT A visual breakdown of why SimpleX Chat may be one of the strongest privacy-first messaging architectures: no phone number, no username, no user ID, no central social graph, and optional Tor/Orbot routing for stronger route privacy.
We just created the page with the links to 240 community articles, posts, videos, podcasts, guides in 20 languages about SimpleX Chat: simplex.chat/links
Big thank you to everybody who promoted what we build. It would not have happened without you.
Our support contact in the app (Ask SimpleX team) switched to the new support bot 🤖🚀
It lets users send questions about SimpleX Chat to @grok (opt-in), or to connect to the team.
We will publish the guide how anybody can use this bot for customer support later this month.
Freedom of speech needs infrastructure that protects it by design — protocols, governance and funding.
v6.5 release brings SimpleX Channels: a new model for online publishing built for participation privacy.👇
v6.5 is the first beta release of channels:
- channel owners hold their own channel keys,
- each channel uses multiple relays for reliability,
- publishers can run their own chat relays,
- channels can be added to our SimpleX Directory.
Read more at simplex.chat/blog/20260430-s…
We updated SimpleX Chat Privacy Policy and Conditions:
- Stronger privacy commitments from operators and apps.
- New one-time links and public addresses.
- Public channels released in v6.5 (beta).
See all changes via the link in the comment 👇
We are maintaining it in GitHub, so you can track changes:
github.com/simplex-chat/simp…
The apps will show a notification with this change.
The full text is here: simplex.chat/privacy/
Please let us know any questions or suggestions - many amendments were proposed by the users.
Digital ID systems always promise security and always deliver breaches. The EU's new age verification app got hacked in under two minutes. Passport photos were stored unencrypted. PIN protection was bypassed with a text editor. Von der Leyen called it "technically ready." Every ID check is a future breach waiting to happen...
reclaimthenet.org/eu-age-ver…
📱"SWEEPING internet controls being put at the tip of a ministerial pen under the banner of preventing “harm” isn’t child protection – it’s a censor’s charter."
@silkiecarlo writes about a proposed social media ban as MPs debate this issue today⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04…
New, from the Adam Smith Institute:
A FREE SPEECH BILL FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM.
A legislative vision for getting the British state out of the business of censoring opinions, forever.
adamsmith.org/research/the-f…
The permanent suspension of @xmrbazaar is pure absurdity.
An account devoted to peacefully spreading the P2P digital cash movement gets banned for “illegal and regulated behaviors” on a “free speech” platform.
Yet X happily condones porn, spam AI bots, and endless evil/useless accounts.
Why punish a tool of freedom while platforming endless crap?
Reinstate @xmrbazaar !
Like and share so @elonmusk is forced to tell us why X is working to hurt the growth of the most successful p2p crypto marketplace for legal goods and services.
Expose the hypocrisy! Elon please fix this.