> Session is a fork of signal that doesn't require phone numbers, there's some cryptocurrency something or other in there I don't quite get, but I don't believe

> Session is a fork of signal that doesn't require phone numbers, there's some cryptocurrency something or other in there I don't quite get, but I don't believe you need it to send messages. This is not a fork of Signal. It was originally designed to use Signal protocol under the hood for encryption and key management but does not anymore[1]. They appear to be going a different direction now with the service using cryptocurrency nodes to route the service[2] [1] https://getsession.org/blog/session-protocol-technical-information https://getsession.org/blog/session-protocol-technical-infor... [2] https://oxen.io/session-lokinet https://oxen.io/session-lokinet