Musk unveils X Chat, a messenger with encryption 'similar to Bitcoin'

Elon Musk just dropped the mic on The Joe Rogan Experience — X Chat is coming to wreck WhatsApp's whole career. This standalone messenger launches in months with P2P encryption that Musk calls 'similar to Bitcoin.' Translation: your DMs are about to get Fort Knox-level secure.

Musk is coming for Meta's throat — X Chat will have ZERO advertising hooks. No data selling, no creepy targeting. He called out WhatsApp's vulnerability: 'If it knows enough information to show you ads, that’s a lot of information' — and hackers can exploit those same backdoors.

Meta claims WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted using Signal Protocol. But here's the catch — metadata (who you chat with, how often) isn't encrypted. Backups? Not automatically secure either. Their FAQ dodges the data-selling question hard, only admitting they 'work with other Meta Companies.'

Musk promises X Chat will replace Twitter's DM stack with fully encrypted texting, file sharing, and audio/video calls. He's calling it 'the least insecure of any messaging system' — and it'll be available both within X and as a standalone app. The privacy wars just got spicy.