SimpleX Chat is now a crypto project selling tokens and NFTs

Funny how despite the overhaul of site design they didn’t bother fixing their lies by omission.

The service advertises itself as no identifiers, but the server has access to your IP-address. The client could actively prevent that by routing over Tor by default, but they choose not to do that.

There’s exactly two service providers hosting the entire public server infrastructure: Akamai and Runonflux. Thus there’s about 50% chance the service provider is able to perform end-to-end correlation attacks to determine when you talk to your buddy. So much for complete privacy.

The CEO disappeared yet again, like fart to Sahara, before addressing this in the last thread.

And now the project is pivoting to the famously not-at-all scammy world of web3.


As always if you want E2EE messaging with offline-messages, use Signal.

If you want metadata-resistant messaging, use Cwtch.

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