Samson Mow, prominent Bitcoin supporter and CEO at the BTC-focused company JAN3, has addressed the global crypto community with a major BTC tweet. In his message, Mow stated that Bitcoin cannot be likened to any other blockchain platform or code.

Mow published his tweet shortly before the world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, made a move and succeeded in recovering above the $105,000 price mark. By now, it has dropped back to $104.63.

"Bitcoin is the Alpha and the Omega"

The JAN3 CEO warned the community against thinking that Bitcoin is simply “like any other blockchain.” He referred to Satoshi Nakamoto’s brainchild as “the Alpha and the Omega.” Mow explained his maximalist’s stance by saying that “Bitcoin is uniquely decentralized and immutable.”

A couple of years ago, Elon Musk shared a similar take, when talking about artificial intelligence and what it likely can or cannot do in the future. One of the things AI will not be able to do, the Tesla CEO believes, is it cannot “crack Bitcoin.” AI cannot hash Bitcoin easily, he stated in an interview, since AI cannot defy the fundamentals of mathematics.

As for Mow and other Bitcoin maximalists, their confidence in BTC’s supremacy over the rest of cryptocurrencies (and they even refuse to call Bitcoin “crypto,” using that term for altcoins) lies with the proof-of-work algorithm and Bitcoin’s ultimate scarcity since its supply cap is strictly limited to 21 million coins. More than 19 million of them have already been mined. Besides, every four years, so-called halvings take place, which cut down the minting of BTC by half — the block reward for miners shrinks 2x. The most recent one took place in April 2024. It was the fourth halving in Bitcoin’s history.

Elon Musk launches XChat with "Bitcoin-style" encryption

On Sunday, Musk spread the word on his X account that the XChat feature had been rolled out live. He underscored that this feature is built with encryption, contains a vanishing messages feature and allows users to send any type of file to each other.

Musk announced that XChat is built on Rust, which is a “Bitcoin-style encryption” and has a whole new architecture. XChat also allows users to “do audio/video calls without a phone number across all platforms.”