Building a FOSS chat app isn’t easy — it takes a ton of time, effort, and resources. Simplex probably went down that token route just to cover costs. Keychat, on the other hand, is trying something interesting — using ecash sats as postage stamps for messages. And then there’s 0xchat & XChat — we don’t have any monetization model, but we’ve been lucky to get steady grant support from @OpenSats , which helps us keep building and moving forward. View quoted note →