SimpleX Chat on Citadel Dispatch podcast!

Matt Odell and Evgeny talk about:

- SimpleX Network unique design,
- sovereignty as a foundation for privacy,
- privacy as a requirement for freedom of speech.
- governance and sustainability - lessons from the Web,
- planning crowdfunding,
- and more.

Citadel Dispatch podcast: https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/CitadelDispatch/cd196-evgeny-poberezkin--simplex-private-chat

Matt Odell: https://primal.net/odell

Why we are building it: https://simplex.chat/why/

Consortium governance: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/master/rfcs/README.md

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SimpleX Chat apps are 4 years old today!

- 2M+ app downloads
- 300-500K active users (estimated from store statistics - no accounts or any user IDs)
- 1000+ network routers

Coming soon:
- channels
- new UX
- non-profit governance of SimpleX Network

Huge thank you to everybody who made this journey possible by using, promoting and supporting SimpleX Network.

And big thank you to @djb who made our work possible.

You can create a SimpleX Chat chat-bot with 17 lines of JS code using the new Node.js library.

Beta version: https://npmjs.com/package/simplex-chat/v/6.5.0-beta.4.4

Source code: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/tree/master/packages/simplex-chat-nodejs

To run this example with Node.js:

npm i [email protected]

node ./node_modules/simplex-chat/examples/squaring-bot-readme.js

A big news for SimpleX Chat app security:

Android APKs released on GitHub and F-Droid are now 100% reproducible!

It means that you can verify that the app is secure, even if the download site was hacked.

From v6.5 our release process is:

1) build Android apps on two independent systems and confirm they are 100% identical;
2) cryptographically "sign" them;
3) add signature files to the release page.

v6.5 beta.3 release: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/releases/tag/v6.5.0-beta.3

Join & create SimpleX groups!

The directory can now be viewed on our website: https://simplex.chat/directory

The comparison of 6 messengers in c't magazine (Heise.de)

https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2025/9/2505715264990543311

They ranked SimpleX Chat as the best for privacy and security!

SimpleX Network: Power to the People!

Livestream in 3 days:
Feb 11, 5pm GMT / 9am PT.

Watch it via:
X: http://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DXGyqmnWqRGM
YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DMOLtj7Q3Oo
Browser: http://stream.simplex.chat (limited capacity)

Join SimpleX Chat group for Q&A: http://simplex.chat/livestream

Livestream on X, February 11, 5pm UTC, 9am PT

SimpleX network: Power to the People!

Evgeny and Dan Keller (co-founder of Flux) will talk about:

- extreme decentralisation,
- Flux servers in the apps,
- future commercial model,
- large content channels,
- moderation & freedom of speech.

Join us at https://x.com/SimpleXChat or at https://www.youtube.com/@SimpleXChat