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Promote with Leviathan NewsElon Musk’s X has introduced XChat, a messaging product positioned as a rival to WhatsApp and Telegram, with features such as encrypted chats, audio/video calls, file sharing, disappearing messages, and no ads or user tracking. The rollout is part of Musk’s broader effort to turn X into an “everything app,” and reports describe XChat as integrated with X accounts rather than phone numbers, with early access limited to paying users and, in some reports, to iOS first. The key context is that Musk has repeatedly framed XChat as using a Bitcoin-like or “Bitcoin-style” encryption model and as a privacy-first communications stack built in Rust. That framing matters because independent security analysis and reporting have raised questions about how strong the encryption actually is: one review said XChat does not provide true end-to-end encryption as commonly understood, citing server-side key handling and limited protection against man-in-the-middle attacks. For readers, the story is important because it sits at the intersection of encrypted messaging, platform consolidation inside X, and ongoing scrutiny over whether Musk’s privacy claims match the technical implementation.
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