Sadly, we know that they don't like the freedom to communicate.

Over the target.

PWA ftw

Make a block phone Jack. All bitapps allowed 😇

Freedom of speech. #bitchat

how would you of done it? genuinely curious.

Counterinsurgency, in China?!

#winning

By complaining harder, he will manifest the silver bullet of privacy that’s going to topple all authoritarian regimes. He’s gonna realase it once he mocks everyone else. You just wait.

ay im saying that it wont help not that i have a solution bruv its like if i cannot sing i would not have the right to say that a song is shit, like bruv i have ears im not singing with my ears lol also bluetooth chat is like a thousand years old technology i had it on my dumbphone before the first iphone came out jack is the fakest guy ever and here are his fangurlz jumping around for nothing lol thanks jack without we wouldnt have grok pedo ai in 2026

no im just sayin out what you dont dumbass

sayin freedom tech in bio but slaveboii for jack lol fake ass nigga

They can slave away making the device but can't use it

Who would have thought that would happen?

omg everyone is dumb in this commentsection fr

That took quite some time actually…

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Free advertising...

China basically pulling out everything that isn’t China native or centralized 🤡

this is what winning looks like

Dang that sucks

Yea wen Nostr phone yo

Timing View quoted note →

Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim McKelvey, developed a small business platform to accept debit and credit card payments on a mobile device called Square, released in May 2010. The small, square-shaped device attaches to Android, iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch devices via the headphone jack, and as a mini card reader, allows a person to swipe their card, choose an amount to transfer to the recipient and then sign their name for confirmation. Square is also a system for sending paperless receipts via text message or email, and is available as a free app for Android and iOS.[64][65] The company grew from 10 employees in December 2009[66] to over 100 by June 2011. Square's office is on Market Street in San Francisco.[67] In September 2012, Business Insider magazine valued Square Inc. at US$3.2 billion.[68] Dorsey is CEO of Square, Inc.[69] On October 14, 2015, Square filed for an IPO to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.[70] As of that date, Dorsey owned 24.4 percent of the company.[71] In March 2020 the FDIC permitted Square to open a bank. It announced plans to launch Square Financial Services in 2021.[72] In May 2020, Dorsey announced that employees of Square would permanently become remote workers.[73] In 2020, for months, Square began withholding up to 30 percent of the funds that merchants collected from customers using its Cash App.[74] On December 1, 2021, CEO Jack Dorsey officially changed the name of the platform to Block, Inc. This was due in part to his interest in the blockchain as well as the new name encompassing the various businesses better than the current name, which is mostly associated with its merchant-payment services. The stock ticker for Block, Inc. would remain "SQ".[75] Bluesky edit In February 2022, Dorsey joined the board of directors of Bluesky,[76] a Twitter spin-off developing a decentralized social networking protocol and app.[77][78] In May 2024, he announced he was no longer on the board of directors.[79][80][81] He instead endorsed X (formerly Twitter), which he called "freedom technology".[82] In a 2024 interview, Dorsey said that Bluesky's shift toward a traditional corporate structure and the introduction of centralized moderation tools were major factors behind his leaving the company.[83] Digital currency edit Dorsey is one of the few persons who are speculated to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.[84] Other projects edit In 2013, Dorsey expressed his admiration of Michael Bloomberg to CNN,[85] and said he aspires to become mayor of New York City.[85] He served as a judge for Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in 2011.[86] On December 24, 2013, Dorsey was announced as a new member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company.[87] In January 2018, it was reported that Dorsey would not seek reelection at Disney's March annual meeting, due to increased difficulty with conflicts of interest.[88] Dorsey is a board member of the Berggruen Institute's Governance Center.[2] Dorsey gives advice in a chapter of Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.[89][90][91] Dorsey is a vocal Bitcoin advocate, and has spoken at Bitcoin conferences such as "The B Word". He has said that if he were not working on Twitter and Square, he would be working on Bitcoin.[92] He also endorses and financially supported the development of the Nostr social networking protocol.[93][94] In 2023, Dorsey provided the seed funding for OCEAN, a Bitcoin mining pool with the stated goal of decentralizing Bitcoin mining by giving miners the ability to select or construct their own block templates, reducing reliance on centralized pool operators.[95][96] In 2025, Dorsey launched a peer-to-peer messaging app called Bitchat, which uses Bluetooth mesh networking to connect nearby users without the need for an internet connection.[97][98] In November 2025, Dorsey announced he is backing a new app called diVine based on the defunct Vine platform.[99] Personal life edit In 2012, Dorsey moved to the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco.[100] Meditation edit In 2015, Dorsey said he began his mornings with meditation.[101] In late 2017, Dorsey completed ten days of meditation known as Vipassanā taught by followers of S. N. Goenka.[102][103] In November 2018, Dorsey went on a birthday Vipassanā meditation trip to Myanmar.[104] Politics edit In 2019, Dorsey contributed financially to the campaigns of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang.[105] In 2020, he donated $15 million to 29 mayors pursuing the piloting of guaranteed basic income programs in the United States. Until 2021, Dorsey applied "world leader" exceptions that enabled Donald Trump to post content on Twitter that would normally be removed or generate sanctions per the platform's rules. In May 2020, some of Trump's tweets received warning labels, and from Election Day 2020, more flaggings were applied to his tweets.[106] On January 6, 2021, after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Twitter applied a 12-hour timeout to Trump's account for violating its Civic Integrity policy. Trump's account was suspended permanently on January 8 based on a review of his posts' content and context.[107] On January 14, Dorsey defended banning Trump but also said it "sets a precedent I feel is dangerous".[108] In June 2023, Dorsey endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his campaign to become the Democratic party nominee in the 2024 United States presidential election.[109][110][111] In 2024, Dorsey tweeted in support of Gaza war protests in the United States, Vietnam war protests, and Iraq war protests.[112]

Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim McKelvey, developed a small business platform to accept debit and credit card payments on a mobile device called Square, released in May 2010. The small, square-shaped device attaches to Android, iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch devices via the headphone jack, and as a mini card reader, allows a person to swipe their card, choose an amount to transfer to the recipient and then sign their name for confirmation. Square is also a system for sending paperless receipts via text message or email, and is available as a free app for Android and iOS.[64][65] The company grew from 10 employees in December 2009[66] to over 100 by June 2011. Square's office is on Market Street in San Francisco.[67] In September 2012, Business Insider magazine valued Square Inc. at US$3.2 billion.[68] Dorsey is CEO of Square, Inc.[69] On October 14, 2015, Square filed for an IPO to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.[70] As of that date, Dorsey owned 24.4 percent of the company.[71] In March 2020 the FDIC permitted Square to open a bank. It announced plans to launch Square Financial Services in 2021.[72] In May 2020, Dorsey announced that employees of Square would permanently become remote workers.[73] In 2020, for months, Square began withholding up to 30 percent of the funds that merchants collected from customers using its Cash App.[74] On December 1, 2021, CEO Jack Dorsey officially changed the name of the platform to Block, Inc. This was due in part to his interest in the blockchain as well as the new name encompassing the various businesses better than the current name, which is mostly associated with its merchant-payment services. The stock ticker for Block, Inc. would remain "SQ".[75] Bluesky edit In February 2022, Dorsey joined the board of directors of Bluesky,[76] a Twitter spin-off developing a decentralized social networking protocol and app.[77][78] In May 2024, he announced he was no longer on the board of directors.[79][80][81] He instead endorsed X (formerly Twitter), which he called "freedom technology".[82] In a 2024 interview, Dorsey said that Bluesky's shift toward a traditional corporate structure and the introduction of centralized moderation tools were major factors behind his leaving the company.[83] Digital currency edit Dorsey is one of the few persons who are speculated to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.[84] Other projects edit In 2013, Dorsey expressed his admiration of Michael Bloomberg to CNN,[85] and said he aspires to become mayor of New York City.[85] He served as a judge for Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in 2011.[86] On December 24, 2013, Dorsey was announced as a new member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company.[87] In January 2018, it was reported that Dorsey would not seek reelection at Disney's March annual meeting, due to increased difficulty with conflicts of interest.[88] Dorsey is a board member of the Berggruen Institute's Governance Center.[2] Dorsey gives advice in a chapter of Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.[89][90][91] Dorsey is a vocal Bitcoin advocate, and has spoken at Bitcoin conferences such as "The B Word". He has said that if he were not working on Twitter and Square, he would be working on Bitcoin.[92] He also endorses and financially supported the development of the Nostr social networking protocol.[93][94] In 2023, Dorsey provided the seed funding for OCEAN, a Bitcoin mining pool with the stated goal of decentralizing Bitcoin mining by giving miners the ability to select or construct their own block templates, reducing reliance on centralized pool operators.[95][96] In 2025, Dorsey launched a peer-to-peer messaging app called Bitchat, which uses Bluetooth mesh networking to connect nearby users without the need for an internet connection.[97][98] In November 2025, Dorsey announced he is backing a new app called diVine based on the defunct Vine platform.[99] Personal life edit In 2012, Dorsey moved to the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco.[100] Meditation edit In 2015, Dorsey said he began his mornings with meditation.[101] In late 2017, Dorsey completed ten days of meditation known as Vipassanā taught by followers of S. N. Goenka.[102][103] In November 2018, Dorsey went on a birthday Vipassanā meditation trip to Myanmar.[104] Politics edit In 2019, Dorsey contributed financially to the campaigns of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang.[105] In 2020, he donated $15 million to 29 mayors pursuing the piloting of guaranteed basic income programs in the United States. Until 2021, Dorsey applied "world leader" exceptions that enabled Donald Trump to post content on Twitter that would normally be removed or generate sanctions per the platform's rules. In May 2020, some of Trump's tweets received warning labels, and from Election Day 2020, more flaggings were applied to his tweets.[106] On January 6, 2021, after Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Twitter applied a 12-hour timeout to Trump's account for violating its Civic Integrity policy. Trump's account was suspended permanently on January 8 based on a review of his posts' content and context.[107] On January 14, Dorsey defended banning Trump but also said it "sets a precedent I feel is dangerous".[108] In June 2023, Dorsey endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his campaign to become the Democratic party nominee in the 2024 United States presidential election.[109][110][111] In 2024, Dorsey tweeted in support of Gaza war protests in the United States, Vietnam war protests, and Iraq war protests.[112]

Illegal speech who’d’ve thought

They slapped you with their CAC. 👎🏼

Fuck off spammer

Means you’re doing something right. Keep up the great work friend

Obviously to be expected, the real question is when will the day come that apps such as Bit Chat are removed from US and Euro app stores. That day will come, as the digital noose gets tighter…..

没有你好

😜🤣

Good sign that it is effective

A badge of honor

this is where "national security" vs freedom of speech is at a constant battle. Not sure if timing is coincidence, but KMT and CCP are meeting this week for the first high-level talks in many years, where the stated policy goal of both sides (in principle) is a possible reunification. Its a big week for China, and heightened security is likely. That said, China and its developers are deeply involved in open source, so it would be interesting to see if a China fork of this project emerges.

We have it here, but there are no communities yet.

Cash App still can not be used on GrapheneOS

wonder how is that 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

🤡🤑

That's a compliment

Delta Chat uses email. Much more censorship resistant. People are using delta chat on official government servers in Russia lol.

"App Review" means bidness

CCP is the most evil,America must End of the CCP.which is the tumor of the earth 🌍.and only America can End of the CCP.

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If I didn’t know better I’d think they’re hiding something.

is it good or bad then lol

Wow. Not surprising. Keep pushing 🤝

Looks like if they can’t control you like a puppet then the China will have it removed.

In preparation for the pressure high oil prices will place on the Chinese state?

That’s how you know it’s good. 🧡

They will make it illegal for people to talk to each other eventually.

THAT’S WILD

ive been chatting with many chinese frens on bitchat this is disapoointing

Wild

do they know about zapstore?

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It might also help to differentiate between infra tools and foreign public opinion tools. Maybe if they viewed bitchat as a neutral infra like Linux or TCP/IP it might be fine. But they likely saw it as a US-aligned opinion tool. A good 99% of replies from Nostr and twitter are quick to judge, vilify, and rarely question why or what led to it. Having a vantage point of seeing both east and west, terms like 'freedom of speech’, ‘liberation’, ‘democracy’ ,while incredibly necessary, have been heavily weaponized by orgs that act as extensions of Western intelligence - and it might explain the severe distrust. I believe its important to actively differentiate between giving people agency vs. having ulterior motives, and being pro-people instead of pro-opposition.

No surprise tbh

Will be pulled from US app stores in 2029, if not sooner.

That’s proof of work

Everything banned in China is highly recommend to use!

Uncensored infra gets banned in China all the time. Does not matter what people say on it.

Apple Compliance > Human Rights. Well …

Trumps fucking up with ukraine and Iran isnt helping.

Get it while you still can. iOS:

App Store

bitchat mesh App - App Store

Download bitchat mesh by permissionless tech, llc on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like bitchat mesh.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitchat.droid Website:

bitchat

Get it while you still can. iOS:

App Store

bitchat mesh App - App Store

Download bitchat mesh by permissionless tech, llc on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like bitchat mesh.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitchat.droid Website:

bitchat

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jk my chinese fren dont use bitchat lol

Can you send bitcoin using bit chat?

Ultimately freedom tech is not enough. To regain political freedom, we must meet authoritarian politicians in open battle, at the urn. As long as there still is urns.

It’s good for censorship resistance for sure. Unfortunately, it’s quite trivial to ban entire protocols because they are shaped in specific ways. And then those protocols become honeypots for certain types of individuals.

Oh how the humans love controlling conversations of others in case of anarchy or discord. It happens everywhere. Bypass the laws? Used for medical purposes only perhaps? Emergency communication declaration. Offer an algorithm that’s searches key words for anarchy or discord? So many ways to bypass or not bypass China laws. They have a serious amount of people and if someone needs surgery decided to do civil war or unrest the could all use walkie talkies - so why stop bitchat? They could use sat phones or pass papers to each other even on camera - why stop Bitchat? They could hack a sat and use phones. Idk. Hope your day is well Jack, we keep plugging away don’t we? My cyber prison is sooo boring and stressful. How’s yours? Same? Hugs.

Is it encryption related and anonymity? Would be my guess.

Not at all. The reason is that behind Nostr are protocols and can be run entirely in isolation. We for example, have used Nostr to build security middleware without any need to use a Nostr relay. Nostr is bottom up. In terms of genuine social media, that is a bigger question. It isn't well known as a platform and the masses are so pre-programmed to dox themselves they prefer handing over their mobile to allow the government to monitor them.

And typical Apple

That's a sign it works I suppose

yes, odd

same

The problem would be when western countries decides to remove Bitcoin wallets from Apple and Google stores if do not have KYC.

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Launch a new one every 12 months ?

Summary: Since we can’t monitor Bitchat or review its content, we’re doing whatever suits us.

Their loss.

You can remove it from the store. You can't remove it from the air. Bluetooth doesn't need permission.

Well, ironically privacy is a protected right (PIPL - 2021) but historical heavy censorship is also a no brainer. And censorship will get worse, even globally. That’s not my point. The capability of bitchat as infrastructure covers a wider surface of use cases and innovation, including many encrypted tools that could be used within own products, internal groups that need privacy, etc or the products it exports. Right now it's seen as an activism tool that limits its tech growth opportunity. Also, understanding why Beijing is extremely sensitive towards how the world has treated it wouldn't hurt.

Lol, apple What about Android and other versions?

Bitchat is a psyop. Hey give the CIA access to your phone so you can have a play pretend mesh. Every journalist and activist that exists has warned people not to use the app because it compromises your privacy and creates a backdoor for the CIA to access your phone.

If by works you mean it removes you privacy amd gives CIA a backdoor to spy on you then yeah

Yea freedom is illegal

What's the backdoor?

🔱⚓️🔱

Keep up the good work Jack. 👏

Product market fit ✅

美国民主党=CCP，中国的CCP就是美国民主党扶持起来的邪恶政党。没有美国民主党的支持。CCP就不会奴役中国人76年这么久。美国民主党是邪恶政党。

At least google had balls to leave china. Apple is literally the worst freedom company there is. Pulling encrypted cloud from the UK. Fucking chinese citizens over. Locked bootloaders. Blocked torrent apps. Anyone supporting Apple should sit down, and think very hard.

#bluetooth #is #securityheaven thanks jack for nothing

Let's go @jack! It's still available in Sri Lanka and others except China. Keep up the great work. All of us with you. 🫂

As a student, it's sad to see how tech is being restricted. We should be building bridges, not walls. Great to have an alternative here on Nostr.

But and a nostr client that works in Bluetooth?

what is the backdoor? And what is the app doing? Exploiting a zero-day exploit on everyone phones? It not like it easy to just hack into an android phone willy-nilly and have system access.

Not obvious to most Bitcoiners, else they would also choose Monero for their personal protection. Be wary of the agents spreading Bitcoin maximalism and want you to use tech that makes it easy to surveill "resistant groups". OpSec is a serious and government licensed companies won't help you achieve it.

NOSTR is also a psyop, it lets the NSA plant microchips in your head! Beware of Open Source. Trust only your govt-approved monopoly App Store.

Does it?

Jack is CIA so this makes sense

the delete button is a confession

Was not that ovaus