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redOz 5 months ago
🟢 Bitchat is live Back in time, straight into #21m. No servers, no tracking, no middlemen — just pure peer-to-peer Bitcoin spirit. Encrypted. Offline-ready. Anonymous. Feels like the 90s terminal, but powered by ₿. The revolution isn’t coming. We’re already chatting in it. #Bitcoin #21m #Bitchat #Privacy @jack @calle @Asanoha @Dylan Hermans @🟠 isolabellart @HoloKat @Stack Jarrow @Neo ⚡️ @paolo @Diggs @beepboop @satsHIVE @Pelican6 @35hara @Remnant | MD @Sebastix image

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SatsAndSports 5 months ago
I think they use some form of proof of work to discourage spam, based on computing some hash that takes at a little bit of time (seconds/minutes?) to produce. And so it's not worthwhile for spammers to do this Might be wrong though
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SatsAndSports 5 months ago
"no servers"? Unless you're using Bluetooth at that ocean location, how can you connect to those folks without some internet-based server? Or maybe you're in the US somewhere, connecting exclusively via the Bluetooth mesh, chatting in a channel that but happens to be named "#21m"?
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redOz 5 months ago
Bitchat runs locally over Bluetooth mesh without servers when infra is down. But it can also bridge to the wider world via Nostr relays. Those relays aren’t “servers” in the WhatsApp/Signal sense (centralized, phone-number bound) — they’re dumb message broadcasters anyone can run, no single point of control. So: local mesh when offline, Nostr relays when online. Correct me if I’m wrong please! 🙏🏼
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HoloKat 5 months ago
It’s a different mode - public chat rooms on relays.
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