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thanks for building!!

Tor in Rust. Nice.

Getting started with Arti | Arti

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What serialization format do y'all use between clients? JSON? Proto?

Jack and/or @calle what is the best resource for normies facing internet/financial services lockdowns to understand bitchat as well as possible using bitcoin/cashu in that context?

Oh SHIT

Will it work with a Dominion-issued Vorta-Link Command Node? Sync with a Field Command Transceiver? Only respond to Jem’Hadar biosignatures? Prevent enemy use? Self-neutralize if tampered with?

Impressive!

Any specific location everyone is meeting to chat? I think #m21 had lots of people before!

Wen Lora support :)

Felicitaciones 🎉🍾

Wen NFC? 🤣

I hope that one day Nostr becomes as big a success as bitchat.

- nobody around

should pay some celeb (not b!tc01n celeb please) on youtube to promote it, or maybe just dont and not have anybody use it

LFG 🔥 View quoted note →

Creates Twitter - Destroys government monopoly over journalist comms Creates Square - Destroys government monopoly over payment comms Creates Bitchat - Destroys government monopoly over protester comms What's next on the docket @jack?

Amazing! You rock, @jack ❤️‍🔥

hey @jack I've finished importing my nsec into bitchat, reading my profile in #me, and publishing to my account via a mesh client with internet access. Publishing is now working (proof:

Andrés Villagrán

first note from #bitchat ⚡🚀

). I'm fine-tuning the final details and will upload it to the Android project.

Wen playstore? Its still showing the Oct 2024 revision?

Hi @jack I think you'll really enjoy this post about the Zen of #Reticulum.

Zen of Reticulum - Reticulum Network Stack 1.1.3 documentation

Done ⚡

Andrés Villagrán

first note via NostrGateway: 100% offline, routed through Bitchat

Stable mesh good! 💪👍 View quoted note →

Bitchat got more upgrades than my life choices 😂💪 @jack

Great jack 🫡

This is huge for bitchat, in my opinion: "... audited by 3rd party security group and addressed all findings" View quoted note →

The best news of this is that there is a .free domain!

Primal's chat could really benefit from merging with bitchat somehow...

È arrivata la v1.5.0 di BitChat per iOS Dopo letteralmente mesi, finalmente arriva un aggiornamenti tra i più significativi. La nuova versione di BitChat è ora disponibile sull'App Store, portando la comunicazione decentralizzata a un livello superiore di velocità, contenuti e sicurezza. Ecco le novità principali di questa release: 🎙️ Note vocali e Immagini in Mesh Chat La comunicazione offline e peer-to-peer non è più limitato al solo testo. Da oggi puoi inviare messaggi vocali e foto direttamente nella Mesh Chat, mantenendo la connessione anche dove non c'è internet. 🛣️ Nuovo Algoritmo di Mesh Routing Riscritto il cuore della rete. Il nuovo algoritmo di routing ottimizza il passaggio dei pacchetti tra i nodi, garantendo una consegna dei messaggi più rapida e una maggiore stabilità della rete in condizioni di alta densità di dispositivi. 🧅 Integrazione del Framework Tor (Arti) La privacy è la priorità. Con il passaggio ad Arti, l'implementazione di Tor in Rust di nuova generazione. Questo significa una connessione alla rete Onion più robusta, sicura e performante rispetto al passato. 🔒 Sicurezza al Primo Posto In questa versione implementati tutti i fix derivanti dall'ultimo Security Audit. Rifinito il codice per eliminare vulnerabilità e garantire che le conversazioni rimangano private e inattaccabili. Aggiorna ora BitChat sul tuo iPhone e prova il futuro della messaggistica privata 🔗

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#BitChat #iOS #Privacy #MeshNetwork #Tor View quoted note →

it would be interesting to plug-in bitchat into existing apps as "messaging module" between users, but maybe also as support module between app developers and its users in bitcoin apps

Bitchat has all this but I dont have any users in my close surroundings... Maybe one day ... it becomes popular in my side of the world too...

I’m using iOS and can’t type a geolocation to teleport because the cursor won’t stay active. The keyboard goes away immediately. Is this an issue for everyone or just me?

These updates are absolutely game-changing! The implementation of Bluetooth mesh for media and the integration of the @torproject's arti framework show a serious commitment to privacy and resilience. Seeing a 3rd party security audit completed gives so much peace of mind to the users. This is exactly the kind of innovation the decentralized world needs. Huge respect to the team for pushing the boundaries of communication! 🤝

It can also work with Meshtastic

I'm missing some feature that would hint how many people are actually in the given geo tag. Currently it's always just 1 until someone replies (on android)

Cool. Will be very interesting to see what the oversight and monitoring is able to produce from the bitchat connections - it's going to be powerful. View quoted note →

Tried this (ios)— worked over long distance (looks like it used Nostr relays). I even chatted with @Eggo across the country. How do you manage favorite people / a favorites list?

Noicee!!

It’s 4, which is awesome 👏… but there are some more features that you can add it to the app… guess what!?! #bitchat.free

Congratulations. This is really so great.

Good news for #bitchat View quoted note →

NEVER USED THIS ... OR TRUED TO IN THE BEGINNING I THINK... SO TOU NEED TO BE WITHIN RANGE ( BLUETOOTH ) TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS ? WILL YOU GET A NOTIFICATION OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AVAILABLE ONCE IN PROXIMITY..

Moar mesh 🚀 View quoted note →

Respect. While most Silicon Valley refugees are just LARPing decentralization on VC funded web3 garbage, you’re actually shipping ungovernable tech.

Check this Cross-platform Flutter Bitchat (Android, iOS, Marcos, Windows, Linux)

Andrés Villagrán

Flutter Bitchat source code available! First version APK included. Communication with other devices is FUNCTIONAL via Bluetooth! 🚀📲 cc: @ja...

Here comes the slop

Does bitchat work over wifi or is it strictly BLE?

#bitchat is not at a full boil, but something shifted this weekend. Activity is suddenly bubbling up everywhere. View quoted note →

My son tried bitchat's photo and audio sharing feature over bluetooth. He was blown away.

Open Garden's Firechat too early...or poor signaling?

Has anyone tackled the problem of how to get bitchat dispersed in places it is most needed, especially around protests in scary regimes? (Iran & Venezuela comes to mind.) Best I can imagine is a literal leaflet airdrop over protest crowds. Some kind of spoofed Wifi hack might work if done cleverly.

Good job 👍

Dude, yep.

Third-party audit + Arti framework is the right pattern. Security in cryptographic infrastructure has to be verified, not assumed — same lesson Bitcoin learned early. Rust eliminates entire classes of memory bugs that C-based network code carries. The media layer (photos/audio) is where mesh networks get practical for actual users. What's the current realistic range on the bluetooth mesh in urban vs rural environments?

Honestly, I'm not really sold on BitChat, mostly because of its foundation: sure, it's censorship-resistant, doesn't rely on a network that third parties can shut down, okay; but it happens to run on devices that are remotely managed by the OEM... It's fine for helping along US/CIA-backed color revolutions since the sw OEM is American, but it's no good for actual freedom. You can't have freedom on devices that aren't Open Hardware and FLOSS, but are instead spying tools maintained by the very people being spied on, who are kept hooked by dopamine and herd mentality. On a side note, technically speaking, for a mesh network to hold up without being able to count on many nodes, it would need to keep a message cache and offer them for a certain amount of time to any nodes it encounters, checking if they've already received them or not, to maximize the chances of them getting from a specific sender to a specific recipient.