- India,
- 03-Jun-2025 12:27 PM IST
Elon Musk News: Making another big bang in the world of technology, Elon Musk has now entered the world of instant messaging after microblogging platform Twitter (now X). Musk has launched a new instant messaging platform called XChat, which is directly challenging Meta's WhatsApp. Discussions are rife on social media about this platform and experts are calling it the "messaging revolution" of the future.What is special in XChat?XChat is equipped with all the features like WhatsApp but it is trying to go one step ahead in terms of security and user privacy. It includes features like end-to-end encryption, auto delete messages, file sharing, audio/video calling.Elon Musk has developed XChat on Bitcoin-style encryption technology, which makes it much more secure than traditional messaging apps. The purpose of this new encryption architecture is to make it impossible for any third party—even the app manufacturer—to access user communications.Musk's statement and Mark Zuckerberg's troublesElon Musk announced XChat on X (formerly Twitter). He said,"The new XChat is being launched, which will provide vanishing messages, encrypted chats and file sharing as well as audio and video calling. It is based on a completely new secure architecture."Musk's statement is a direct warning to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. WhatsApp has been flying the flag of end-to-end encryption for a long time, but questions have been raised many times regarding user privacy. The entry of XChat is offering an option to those users who expect more privacy regarding their conversations.Currently in beta phase, stable version may come soonXChat is currently in beta testing and only limited users have got access to it. However, no official launch date has been announced by Musk's company. But tech sources believe that its public release is not far away.End-to-end encryption and Bitcoin-level security: How secure is XChat?End-to-end encryption means that only the sender and receiver of the message can read that message. Even the app server is not able to read the message. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal already boast this feature.But XChat takes it one step further—with Bitcoin-style encryption. This indicates blockchain-based security, which is considered extremely difficult to hack. That is, your conversations are now not only private, but also almost "unhackable".