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Twitter CEO Jack Dorshai testifies during a remote video conducted by the Committee on Energy and Trade of the House of Representatives on the “role of social media in the promotion of extremism and misinformation” in Washington, March 25, 2021.
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Block CEO Jack Dorsi spent the weekend while building Bitchat, a new decentralized messaging app that is fully working on Bluetooth networks, without Internet, central servers, phone numbers and emails.
Co-founder Twitter announced on Sunday that the beta version lives on Testflightwith full white paper on Commission.
In A Message on x On Sunday, Dorsi called it a personal experiment on Bluetooth networks, relay and forward models, messages encryption and several other things. “
Bitchat allows you to be expaired, encrypted between the nearest devices. As users move through the physical space, their phones form local clusters Bluetooth and transmit messages from the device to the device, allowing them to go out on peers outside the standard range – even without WI -FI or cellular service.
Some “bridge” devices connect the covered clusters, expanding the net at long distances. The messages are stored only on the device, disappear by the default and never touched the centralized infrastructure-half-pushed Dorshai’s prolonged impetus resistant to censorship.
Running is built on it Support for the Domus and the Blues and reflects a broader impetus to decentralization of everything: from social media to payments.
As applications based on Bluetooths used during Hong Kong protests in 2019Bitchat is designed to continue to work even if the Internet is blocked, offering the censorship resistant way to stay in touch during shutdown, shutdown or observation.
The application also supports additional group chats, or “numbers” that can be called hashtags and password -protected. It includes a store functionality and forward for delivering messages to users who are temporarily offline.
A future update will add Wi-Fi Direct to increase speed and range, pushing Dorsi’s vision for the Off-network, even more owned.
In contrast to major messaging platforms like MetaShatsApp and Messenger, owned and built by large technology companies and relies on personal data, Bitchat works completely by a peer without account, no data identifiers.
