White Noise, a new privacy centric messaging app, launched its alpha v0.1.0 in public beta. Built on Nostr’s Bitcoin native, decentralized identity system and the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, White Noise introduces an anonymization protocol to the growing Nostr social media ecosystem that hides sensitive metadata. Paired with end-to-end encrypted group chats and direct messages (DMs), it promises to take Nostr from an early adopter, hobbyist technology to a viable alternative, in the world of privacy branded messaging apps like Whatsapp, Telegram.

Nostr, short for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays,” is a decentralized, open-source protocol launched in…

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