PRESS KIT // 2026
This press kit contains our own weaknesses. That's what makes it usable.
Z-TEXT is a zk-SNARKs blockchain messenger built on BitcoinZ — no phone, no email, no SIM, zero metadata. Below is everything a journalist needs to write a real story: verified facts, an interactive tool that scores us honestly (including where we lose), pre-approved quotes, and direct contact — no PR firm in between.
Status: Public beta live — licenses, wallet, and messaging are already running at z-text.com. Broader app store rollout is underway across multiple stores. This is early access, not a hypothetical.
Try to catch us lying
Rank what matters to you. We'll show exactly where Z-TEXT lands among 29 messengers — scored on the same 8 criteria as everyone else, no matter what you pick. It rarely wins. That's the honest result of a scoreboard we built the same way for all 29 apps, including our own.
No group calling yet. No independent third-party security audit yet — built on audited Zcash cryptography, but Z-TEXT's own implementation hasn't been externally audited. A timestamp-based nonce in one non-critical component and an unprotected panic-PIN toggle at file level are known issues; neither affects funds or message confidentiality.
Boilerplate
Copy-paste ready. No need to email us for a usable paragraph.
Z-TEXT is a zk-SNARKs blockchain messenger built on the BitcoinZ network. It requires no phone number, no email, and no SIM card, and collects zero metadata by design. The app combines a shielded messenger, a password manager, a non-custodial crypto wallet, and Channels broadcasting under a single 24-word recovery seed. Z-TEXT LLC is self-funded, based in Wyoming, and publishes its own threat model and known security limitations publicly rather than only its strengths.
Story angles
Four ready hooks, ranked by how unusual they are — not how flattering.
The messenger that scored itself honestly, and shipped it anyway
Z-TEXT built an open comparison tool against 28 other messengers, on 8 criteria, and lands 27th of 29 overall — a rare case of a company publishing a scoreboard it doesn't win.
Self-funded, no VC, two people
No investor board, no venture round. The founder and one remote developer built the app, the blockchain integration, and the infrastructure independently.
What happens when your messenger's company disappears
Wickr (Amazon) shut down in Dec 2023. Skype (Microsoft, once an $8.5B acquisition) shut down in May 2025. Both apps now score zero on every criterion — not from broken encryption, but because a company decided to stop running servers. Z-TEXT's identity is a recovery seed, not a company account.
Governments are already moving to blockchain
Wyoming — where Z-TEXT LLC is incorporated — became the first U.S. state to issue its own blockchain-based digital currency (Frontier Stable Token, live since Jan 2026). The Bank of Japan is expanding its own blockchain settlement infrastructure in 2026. What most of those systems don't add is a privacy layer — which is where zk-SNARKs comes in.
Pre-approved quotes
"We scored our own app honestly against 28 others, using the same rules for all of them. It loses on group calling and network size — because it's new, and those are real weaknesses. Publishing that felt riskier than hiding it. It wasn't."
— Eric Pierrot, Founder, Z-TEXT LLC
"A messenger built on a company's servers only exists as long as that company keeps paying for them. Wickr and Skype prove that. Z-TEXT's identity is a 24-word phrase, not an account — no company can shut that off."
— Eric Pierrot, Founder, Z-TEXT LLC
Frequently asked
Assets
High-resolution, no watermark. Right-click to save.
A screenshot can be cropped or staged. The blockchain can't. Open the real BitcoinZ explorer and look at any shielded transaction yourself — sender, receiver, and content are not visible, on any transaction, to anyone, including us.
explorer.btcz.rocks → — search any transaction hash. Shielded fields show as encrypted, not blank or redacted — there was never plaintext to hide.
Direct contact
Eric Pierrot, Founder — contact@z-text.com
PGP fingerprint, for anything sensitive: