Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth
Twitter CEO, Jack Persey, witnessed the issue of “social media’s role in encouraging extremism and misinformation” during a remote video hearing organized by the US House of Representatives sub -committees.
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To obstruct CEO Jack Dorsey spent the newly decentralized, non-centralized, inter-spousal messaging application, which works completely on Bluetooth mesh networks without the weekend, internet, central servers, phone numbers or emails.
Twitter founding partner announced on Sunday. TestflightWith a complete white paper Gitithub.
One Send it to x Sunday, “Bluetooth mesh networks, relay and storage and forward models, message encryption models, and a few things,” he said.
Bitchat provides temporary, encrypted communication between nearby devices. As users progress in the physical field, their phones create local Bluetooth clusters and pass messages from the device to the device and allow them to go beyond the standard range even without WiFi or cell service.
Some “bridge” devices connect overlap clusters and expand the network over larger distances. The messages are stored only on the device, disappear by default and never touch the central infrastructure-Dorsey’s prolonged pressure for censorship-resistant communication, which maintains confidentiality.
The launch is based on Damus and Bluesky support and reflects a wider pressure to decentralize everything from social media to payments.
Like Bluetooth -based applications Hong Kong’s 2019 protestsBitchat is designed to continue to work even when the Internet is blocked, and interruptions offer a censorship -resistant way to remain connected to closure or surveillance.
The application also supports “rooms” that can be named with optional group chats or hashtags and protected by passwords. It contains stores and advanced functionality to provide messages to users who are temporarily offline.
A future update will further further argue the user’s vision of communication by the user, by adding WiFi directly to increase speed and range.
Unlike main current messaging platforms MetaWhatsApp and Messenger, which are owned and produced by major technology companies and rely on personal data, work completely without descriptive and data collection.
