Jack Dorsey Launches a WhatsApp Messaging Rival Built On Bluetooth
08-07-2025 00:50 via mobile.slashdot.org

Jack Dorsey Launches a WhatsApp Messaging Rival Built On Bluetooth

Jack Dorsey has launched Bitchat, a decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that uses Bluetooth mesh networks for encrypted, ephemeral chats without requiring accounts, servers, or internet access. The beta version is live on TestFlight, with a full white paper available on GitHub. CNBC reports: In a post on X Sunday, Dorsey called it a personal experiment in "bluetooth mesh networks, relays and store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things."Bitchat enables epheme
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