Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of the Matrix open standard, told us: “This has nothing to do with the Matrix protocol; it’s just an unfortunate naming coincidence.”
Read the linked article; this was a different network using the same name.
yeaah I fucked up, I didn’t read far enough into the article hence why I deleted my comment a second after posting😬
That’s another poor mistake that I’m gonna try to not repeat
No worries, The Register hid the clarification about the two different networks way down at the end, so it’s an easy mistake. I honestly think they need to put that note at the beginning to avoid confusion.