News from Lightning-land. Yesterday is announced that the beta version of the Sphinx app is on the market. This is a chat service that runs entirely through Bitcoin’s decentralized and peer-to-peer payment network.

They have developed an app that you can link to your own node. This allows you to chat end-to-end encrypted, which means that the messages are encrypted.

You can also make video calls via Jitsi and perhaps best of all, you can pay bits of Bitcoin in this chat.

Making a payment via Lightning costs at most a couple of sat. For the time being, there seem to be no (or hardly any) costs attached to this chat service. If the use of the app increases tremendously, nodes could ask miniscule amounts (of a few satoshi’s) for this.

Messaging on LN ⚡

Beta-testing @sphinx_chat and it's really impressive

– E2E encrypted realtime chat

– Video chat via jitsi

– Sending/Requesting SATs

– Sending paywalled images

– You will be able to connect your own node @thechaz, @MartyBent you should check this out#bitcoin pic.twitter.com/7Mc5eLONqw — Joko (@therealjokoono) April 15, 2020

It seems to be a follow-up project of the Dutchman Joost Jager who is employed by Lightning Labs. He built the framework for this idea on an attic room. He called it Whatsat

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