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CD196: EVGENY POBEREZKIN - SIMPLEX PRIVATE CHAT
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- Citadel Dispatch
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- Mar 20, 2026
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- 7392
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Summary
Evgeny is the founder of SimpleX Chat, a private and secure comms protocol that has a radically different approach to the concept of user identity. We discuss how SimpleX's unique transport network assigns addresses to connections instead of endpoints, why MLS is flawed, the upcoming scalable channels feature to compete with Telegram, and how the network plans to sustain itself through a model where large channels fund infrastructure. No phone numbers. Private and secure. Open and scalable. Personal blog: https://www.poberezkin.com Official website: https://simplex.chat SimpleX on Nostr: https://primal.net/simplex SimpleX on X: https://x.com/SimpleXChat EPISODE: 196 BLOCK: 941454 PRICE: 1432 sats per dollar (00:02:56) Introducing SimpleX and why Signals model falls short (00:04:48) What is SimpleX? Sovereignty and trustless design principles (00:09:21) Privacy as prerequisite for speech and society (00:13:04) From messenger to scalable channels and Telegram comparisons (00:17:27) Content privacy vs participation privacy in large groups (00:23:30) Removing identity (00:24:32) Transport layer innovation: addressing connections, not endpoints (00:29:09) SimpleX Chat as first app and platform on the network (00:30:25) Agents, AI, and commerce inside messaging (00:32:43) Routers: resource needs and the trust model (00:36:14) Operator diversity and Tor comparisons (00:40:15) Packet level anonymity vs persistent circuits (00:41:39) Discovery and first contact: addresses, reply paths, UX (00:43:09) Groups at scale, MLS critique, and Signals approach (00:48:00) SimpleX groups today and upcoming channel relays (00:52:30) Verifiability, signed actions, and deniability tradeoffs (01:01:02) Authenticity for public speech in a deepfake era (01:02:01) Incentivizing infras…