XChat:披着“比特币”外衣,马斯克打造西方微信的关键一步

比推Published on 2025-06-02Last updated on 2025-06-02

6月1日,马斯克开始发力,宣布X平台推出全新消息系统XChat,主打端到端加密、消失消息、任意文件传输和跨平台音视频通话。

也就是说,X 不仅能够发推看推了,后续或许会逐渐具备类似于 Telegram 或微信的即时聊天功能。

目前该功能还在测试阶段,并不是所有用户都能体验到。

不过更吸引眼球的是,马斯克宣称XChat采用了“比特币风格的加密”,并用Rust语言开发,号称“全新架构”。

比特币过于经典,经典到以至于很多人对它的名字如雷贯耳,将其当做一种领头羊资产在对待,但对它到底用了怎样的技术并不是很清楚。

马斯克所说的比特币风格的加密架构,到底是个啥?笔者又翻了下比特币白皮书,站在一个老韭菜的角度来解读一下。

XChat 测试版功能抢先看

据某些推友反馈,自己的 X 账号当前已经被推送了 Xchat,并标记为"Beta”测试版,最核心的功能是私信会在你所有的设备上进行端到端加密,任何人都无法读取你的私信,X也不例外。

那么我们可以结合马斯克的原贴以及网友反馈,拆解一下这个功能。

  • 端到端加密:消息、通话内容只有通信双方能看到,第三方(包括X平台)无法窥探。

  • 阅后即焚:可以设置消息在一定时间后自动删除,比如10分钟后,保护隐私更彻底。

  • 任意文件传输:支持发送任何类型的文件,包括照片、视频、文档等,不再受限于格式或大小。

  • 跨平台音视频通话:无需手机号即可拨打,支持手机、电脑等多设备,通话内容同样加密。

你别说,这还有点像 Telegram 。

这关比特币什么事?

提到“比特币风格加密”,很多人的第一反应可能是:比特币不是用来转账的吗,跟加密聊天有啥关系?

别急,我们先来回顾一下比特币的加密技术,再看看XChat可能怎么借鉴。

其实十多年前的比特币白皮书标题已经说的很清楚了,“点对点的现金支付系统”,这里的点对点也即经常听到的P2P。

BTC—想要实现点对点(我和你)转账,不需要中间人来管;

Xchat—想要实现点对点(我和你)聊天,不需要中间人来管。

这是同源技术的不同实现方向。

要点对点,比特币是怎么做的呢?

把区块链的账本技术先放在一边,比特币要实现点对点转账,使用的加密技术,简单说就是“锁”和“签名”。

  • “锁”:椭圆曲线加密(ECC): 比特币用了一种叫椭圆曲线加密(ECC)的东西,简单说,它就像一把超级安全的锁。每个人都有两把钥匙:一把是公钥(公开的,相当于锁),一把是私钥(只有你知道,相当于钥匙)。比如,你要给朋友转比特币,你的钱包会用朋友的公钥“锁”住这笔交易,只有朋友用自己的私钥才能“开锁”,拿到钱。整个过程没人能偷看或篡改,连比特币网络都看不到交易细节。

  • “签名”:数字签名(ECDSA) 除了“锁”,比特币还用数字签名来证明“你是你”。当你转账时,你的钱包会用私钥生成一个签名,证明这笔交易确实是你发的。别人可以用你的公钥验证这个签名,但无法伪造。

  • “防篡改”:哈希算法(SHA-256) 比特币还用了一种叫SHA-256的哈希算法,把交易信息变成一串固定长度的“指纹”。如果交易被改动,哪怕只改一个字母,指纹也会完全不同,网络马上就能发现。

注意,这些加密算法和签名算法,并不是比特币发明的,而是将它们放在一起综合使用。

因此,结合XChat的功能,我们可以推测它可能这样用比特币的技术,也就是马斯克口中的“比特币风格加密”:

  • 端到端加密:消息的“保险箱” XChat的端到端加密可能用了ECC的变种(比如ECDH协议)。当你发消息给朋友,你的手机会用朋友的公钥加密消息,只有朋友的私钥能解密。 举个例子:你发“我今晚7点到”,消息会变成一串乱码,只有朋友的设备能解开,X平台或其他人都看不到。音视频通话也可能用类似方法,保护通话内容不被窃听。

  • 数字签名:证明消息是你发的 XChat可能用类似ECDSA的数字签名技术,确保消息来源可信。比如你发了一份合同文件,XChat会用你的私钥签名,朋友收到后可以用你的公钥验证,确认文件是你发的,没被篡改。

  • 阅后即焚:加密+定时销毁 消失消息功能可能结合加密和定时销毁机制。消息加密后,只有接收方能看,服务器会在指定时间(比如10分钟)后自动删除,即使设备被黑客攻破,也找不到历史消息。

  • 文件传输:防篡改的“指纹” 传输文件时,XChat可能用SHA-256生成文件的哈希值(指纹)。朋友收到文件后,系统会自动验证指纹,确保文件没被中途篡改。

至于用什么开发语言,RUST还是啥,笔者并非技术出身在此不做过多解读。

不止于聊天

XChat的推出,不只是一个聊天工具那么简单。

马斯克一直想把X打造成“everything app”(超级应用),类似我们常用的微信。

从他的一些动作上是可以看出端倪的,比如先收购推特,再借鉴微信的诸多功能,集成 Grok AI 等等。

而随着美国稳定币法案的逐渐通过以及加密友好的大环境形成,后面我们也有理由期待支付相关的功能出现,比如 XPay。

微信在中国的成功,靠的是基于社交关系和强大的粘性,把聊天、支付、打车、购物等功能融为一体。XChat如果能整合支付(XPay)、AI助手(Grok 3)、社交(X平台的社区功能),再加上强大的隐私保护,完全有可能成为西方的“超级微信”。

最后,再来看看“比特币风格加密”这个说法真的那么独特吗?其实未必。

椭圆曲线加密(ECC)、数字签名(ECDSA)、哈希算法(SHA-256)这些技术,早就不是比特币的专属。

很多安全应用都用类似技术,比如WhatsApp、Signal的端到端加密,也依赖ECC和哈希算法;苹果的iMessage甚至在2010年代就采用了ECC。比特币的加密技术虽然可靠,但更像是“行业标配”,并没有太多独创性。

马斯克选择“比特币风格”这个表述,更可能是出于营销考量。比特币作为加密货币的“代名词”,自带流量和信任光环。

不过亲加密的表述越多,我们当然越开心。

在注意力代币化的大环境里, X和马斯克后续的更多功能和玩法,也同样值得期待。

说明: 比推所有文章只代表作者观点,不构成投资建议

Related Reads

The Truth About Global Payments, Exposed by Airwallex

Airwallex's founder, Jack Zhang, outlines the three primary paths in the global payments industry and explains why the company chooses the most demanding one: building its own global financial infrastructure. The article begins by highlighting a common industry problem: payment platforms appear homogenized on the surface, offering similar features like global acquiring and multi-currency accounts. However, their underlying capabilities differ vastly. Customers truly care about payment stability, compliance robustness, and reliable market entry support. Zhang identifies three strategic paths: 1. **Bypassing Traditional Systems (Web3/Crypto):** This path promises efficiency via stablecoins and blockchain settlement but struggles with mainstream adoption, significant regulatory friction, and a lack of competitive edge against established players, often leaving it with niche or non-compliant markets. 2. **Packaging Existing Infrastructure:** The most common route, where companies layer a modern interface over legacy banking and partner networks. While enabling fast expansion, it fails to solve core issues like dependency on correspondent banks and intermediary risk, merely postponing the need for solid foundations. 3. **Building Own Global Infrastructure:** The path chosen by Airwallex, Ant International, and others. It involves obtaining local licenses, establishing direct regulatory relationships, building local teams, and controlling the full technology stack. This "heavy" approach is slow and capital-intensive but aims to internalize complexity, providing customers with a "lighter" experience. The core argument is that for business clients, the highest cost isn't transaction fees but hidden risks like frozen accounts, payment delays, and regulatory shocks. By investing heavily in its own infrastructure, Airwallex seeks to absorb these complexities, offering customers greater stability, cost savings (beyond fees), and long-term certainty. This foundational investment, though initially slow, enables compound growth, as evidenced by Airwallex's accelerated revenue scaling. In conclusion, while shortcuts enable faster growth, mastering the most difficult aspects—owning the underlying infrastructure—creates durable value for customers and sustainable advantage for the payment provider.

marsbit3h ago

The Truth About Global Payments, Exposed by Airwallex

marsbit3h ago

The Truth About Global Payments, Revealed by Airwallex

The article discusses Airwallex's approach to global payments, highlighting the key challenges and different strategic paths in the industry. It begins by addressing common user questions about platform reliability, cryptocurrency payments, and the necessity of Airwallex's "heavy" infrastructure model. The core argument is that while many payment platforms appear similar on the surface—offering features like global acquiring and multi-currency accounts—their underlying capabilities differ drastically. The piece identifies three primary paths for global payment providers: 1. **Bypassing Traditional Infrastructure (Web3/Crypto):** This path promises efficiency through stablecoins and on-chain settlements but faces significant regulatory hurdles and offers little advantage over established players for mainstream use, often serving only niche or non-compliant markets. 2. **Aggregating/Packaging Existing Infrastructure:** The most common route, where companies layer a better user experience over legacy banking and partner networks. While fast to market, this approach does not solve fundamental issues like dependency on intermediaries, correspondent banking risks, and compliance fragility. 3. **Building Proprietary Global Infrastructure:** The path chosen by Airwallex and similar firms. This involves obtaining local licenses, building direct regulatory relationships, establishing local teams, and controlling the compliance and technology stack. This is the most difficult and capital-intensive route but aims to internalize complexity. Airwallex's strategy of "heavy" investment in its own infrastructure is framed not as inefficiency, but as a long-term bet to provide clients with greater stability, cost savings beyond fees, and certainty. The platform's "heaviness" absorbs risk and operational complexity, aiming to deliver a "lighter" experience for business customers. The article concludes that in global payments, while shortcuts enable faster growth, mastering the most difficult aspects—the underlying infrastructure—is what creates durable value for clients and sustainable competitive advantage.

链捕手3h ago

The Truth About Global Payments, Revealed by Airwallex

链捕手3h ago

Trading

Spot
Futures

Hot Articles

What is $BITCOIN

DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN): A Comprehensive Analysis Introduction to DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) is a blockchain-based project operating on the Solana network, which aims to combine the characteristics of traditional precious metals with the innovation of decentralized technologies. While it shares a name with Bitcoin, often referred to as “digital gold” due to its perception as a store of value, DIGITAL GOLD is a separate token designed to create a unique ecosystem within the Web3 landscape. Its goal is to position itself as a viable alternative digital asset, although specifics regarding its applications and functionalities are still developing. What is DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN)? DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) is a cryptocurrency token explicitly designed for use on the Solana blockchain. In contrast to Bitcoin, which provides a widely recognized value storage role, this token appears to focus on broader applications and characteristics. Notable aspects include: Blockchain Infrastructure: The token is built on the Solana blockchain, known for its capacity to handle high-speed and low-cost transactions. Supply Dynamics: DIGITAL GOLD has a maximum supply capped at 100 quadrillion tokens (100P $BITCOIN), although details regarding its circulating supply are currently undisclosed. Utility: While precise functionalities are not explicitly outlined, there are indications that the token could be utilized for various applications, potentially involving decentralized applications (dApps) or asset tokenization strategies. Who is the Creator of DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN)? At present, the identity of the creators and development team behind DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) remains unknown. This situation is typical among many innovative projects within the blockchain space, particularly those aligning with decentralized finance and meme coin phenomena. While such anonymity may foster a community-driven culture, it intensifies concerns about governance and accountability. Who are the Investors of DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN)? The available information indicates that DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) does not have any known institutional backers or prominent venture capital investments. The project seems to operate on a peer-to-peer model focused on community support and adoption rather than traditional funding routes. Its activity and liquidity are primarily situated on decentralized exchanges (DEXs), such as PumpSwap, rather than established centralized trading platforms, further highlighting its grassroots approach. How DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) Works The operational mechanics of DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) can be elaborated on based on its blockchain design and network attributes: Consensus Mechanism: By leveraging Solana’s unique proof-of-history (PoH) combined with a proof-of-stake (PoS) model, the project ensures efficient transaction validation contributing to the network's high performance. Tokenomics: While specific deflationary mechanisms have not been extensively detailed, the vast maximum token supply implies that it may cater to microtransactions or niche use cases that are still to be defined. Interoperability: There exists the potential for integration with Solana’s broader ecosystem, including various decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. However, the details regarding specific integrations remain unspecified. Timeline of Key Events Here is a timeline that highlights significant milestones concerning DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN): 2023: The initial deployment of the token occurs on the Solana blockchain, marked by its contract address. 2024: DIGITAL GOLD gains visibility as it becomes available for trading on decentralized exchanges like PumpSwap, allowing users to trade it against SOL. 2025: The project witnesses sporadic trading activity and potential interest in community-led engagements, although no noteworthy partnerships or technical advancements have been documented as of yet. Critical Analysis Strengths Scalability: The underlying Solana infrastructure supports high transaction volumes, which could enhance the utility of $BITCOIN in various transaction scenarios. Accessibility: The potential low trading price per token could attract retail investors, facilitating wider participation due to fractional ownership opportunities. Risks Lack of Transparency: The absence of publicly known backers, developers, or an audit process may yield skepticism regarding the project's sustainability and trustworthiness. Market Volatility: The trading activity is heavily reliant on speculative behavior, which can result in significant price volatility and uncertainty for investors. Conclusion DIGITAL GOLD ($BITCOIN) emerges as an intriguing yet ambiguous project within the rapidly evolving Solana ecosystem. While it attempts to leverage the “digital gold” narrative, its departure from Bitcoin's established role as a store of value underscores the need for a clearer differentiation of its intended utility and governance structure. Future acceptance and adoption will likely depend on addressing the current opacity and defining its operational and economic strategies more explicitly. Note: This report encompasses synthesised information available as of October 2023, and developments may have transpired beyond the research period.

363 Total ViewsPublished 2025.05.13Updated 2025.05.13

What is $BITCOIN

Discussions

Welcome to the HTX Community. Here, you can stay informed about the latest platform developments and gain access to professional market insights. Users' opinions on the price of BTC (BTC) are presented below.

活动图片