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Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by Ray20 »

hashworks wrote: post #149
littlecranky67 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neat academic toy - unless you can predict why a large-scale, long-term internet outage should happen. Aside from that, most of what your concept includes (but uses Internet instead of BT) exists with Nostr+Lightning.

There have been incidents where governments disabled routing to specific services or the Internet entirely to hinder demonstrations.

How relevant is this in the context of the mesh networks under discussion?

How resilient are those protocols to attacks on the integrity of the network, when most (or signicant part) of the nodes are controlled by a bad actor and deliberately operate in a mode that prevents the functioning of the network?

Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by suck-my-spez »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #113
suck-my-spez wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly only a few commits were written by his account. Almost all were from https://github.com/nothankyou1

He doesn't use personal identifiers on any of his devices, afaik.

I guess his commits were done on GitHub.com then?

Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by bravoetch »

benbristow wrote: post #178
miroljub wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go to a football game or a festival to frantically keep messaging, better stay at home.

Spoken like someone who's never lost their pal at a festival

And doesn't see the potential sexy use-cases...

Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by greyface- »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #305
repeekad wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think it would be interesting if someone could invent a stable coin cryptocurrency with low overhead Like the US dollar and Postgres? For like $200 anyone can start a business entity in the US with a tax ID and a bank, I’m still yet to understand how crypto is better other than for circumventing regulators

Where's the API for sending and receiving USD?

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/wires

https://achdevguide.nacha.org/

Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by greyface- »

b33f wrote: post #310
rlt wrote: post #123

The coolest thing about this is apparently it’s written by Jack Dorsey, billionaire founder of Twitter/Square. https://x.com/jack/status/1941989435962212728 Cool to see he still gets his hands dirty in code.

It's not though, it's written by someone called nothankyou1 https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat/graphs/contributors

The commits, viewed outside of GitHub, have:

  Author: jack
He used a bogus `user.email` git config value, which GitHub matched to the nothankyou1 account.

Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by johnnyfiveplus »

I really don't see the relevance of this app. We already know that Bluetooth (BLE) is short range.... so is this equivalent to speaking to people a hundred feet away from you in an encrypted manner? So use case is only for protests I assume?

Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by 0xOsprey »

repeekad wrote: post #218
Aurornis wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Senders pay a small fee to send a message. • Relaying devices earn a micro-payment (could be tokens, sats, etc.) for carrying the message one hop further. The Helium Network tried something like this, but with a fixed infrastructure: People were incentivized to run Helium network nodes and could earn micropayments for running nodes and handling traffic. It revealed a lot of problems with structures like this, such…

> I think it would be interesting if someone could invent a stable coin cryptocurrency with low overhead Like the US dollar and Postgres? For like $200 anyone can start a business entity in the US with a tax ID and a bank, I’m still yet to understand how crypto is better other than for circumventing regulators

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Re: Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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Post by 0xOsprey »

Aurornis wrote: post #201
moneywaters wrote: post #96

I’ve been toying with a concept inspired by Apple’s Find My network: Imagine a decentralized, delay-tolerant messaging system where messages hop device-to-device (e.g., via Bluetooth, UWB, Wi-Fi Direct), similar to how “Find My” relays location via nearby iPhones. Now add a twist: • Senders pay a small fee to send a message. • Relaying devices earn a micro-payment (could be tokens, sats, etc.) for carrying the messag…

> Senders pay a small fee to send a message. • Relaying devices earn a micro-payment (could be tokens, sats, etc.) for carrying the message one hop further. The Helium Network tried something like this, but with a fixed infrastructure: People were incentivized to run Helium network nodes and could earn micropayments for running nodes and handling traffic. It revealed a lot of problems with structures like this, such…

>>I think it would be interesting if someone could invent a stable coin cryptocurrency with low overhead that enabled some of these use cases

We are thinking about this and building in this direction with Paygo.wtf

https://x.com/0x_Osprey/status/1925299005191577921

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