SimpleX Chat has grown to ~480,000 users! It has been growing more than 2x every year over the last 3 years. Now you can get a stake in SimpleX Chat and benefit from the company growth. If you invest $500 or more, we offer a SimpleX public name for your channel or business as a perk: - for 10 years if you invest until 17:00 UTC tomorrow (countdown on Wefunder page) - for 5 years for early bird investors - for 3 years after that. Learn about how we plan to make SimpleX Chat profitable and about all investment terms on Wefunder: https://wefunder.com/simplexchat image How do we know how many users SimpleX has, without having user IDs? App Store and Play Store provide actual usage statistics – monthly active users and daily active users. It is ~72% of the total. The rest we estimate based on GitHub and F-Droid downloads.

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MoriYuzaa 2 weeks ago
I think its better to stay small. it was impossible for telegram to stay private with that many users. Privacy is small circles, the smaller the better. Profit should be sought in other areas, privacy and profit dont match up well. how much money is a secret worth?
The holding company that does crowdfunding is in the US. The operating company is its 100% owned subsidiary - it remained in the UK.
The problem with network staying small is that privacy is limited in the niche. This 3y old post was about it: Our answer to staying small is decentralization. The vision for SimpleX network is 1000s of independent server operators, all profitable, and 10s of competing applications, all profitable too - our plan for infrastructure payments creates revenue not only for server operators, but for application developers too. This way all participants are smaller than one large network they form. As with the Open Web.
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1984 1 week ago
UK government just used the Investigatory Powers Act to demand access to Apple’s encrypted iCloud data for UK users, basically demanding a backdoor. So, what are your plans when you get forced by (law) government or secret agencies to implement surveillance? Are there plans in place?
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1984 1 week ago
Tard, get a brain.
How can this be ? I'm on vacation in South America and use a VPN πŸ€” The satanic psychopaths have somehow hacked into your servers and blocked the connection to my contacts in order to isolate me ...
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