by The co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has launched a new messaging app that works without a WLAN or telephone service.
Instead, Bitchat works with the Bluetooth signal of a phone with which users can communicate in situations such as music festivals or protests where the mobile phone service is stained or restricted.
Bluetooth usually has a range of around 100 meters. Bitchat, however, overcomes this technical restriction by using something as a Bluetooth network network that forwards messages around other users nearby.
According to a white paper details, the service is completely decentralized and encrypted, whereby the network does not require the e -mail address, telephone number or an user’s account.
“Bitchat deals with the need for a resistant private communication that does not depend on the centralized infrastructure,” says the white paper of the app.
“By using Bluetooth-Licens Network, BITChat enables direct messaging of peer-to-peer messages in physical close, whereby the automatic news relay extends the effective area beyond direct Bluetooth connections.”
Mr. Dorsey informed details of the app in a post on X and revealed that it contains a number of more than 300 meters via Bluetooth Mesh Networking, while no centralized server means that there is no tracking or data acquisition.
By default, messages also disappear with optional groups chats, which are referred to as “rooms” -so that users can interact with several people at the same time.
According to Dorsey, future updates from the app could enable faster and longer communication via WLAN networks.
The Peer-to-Peer-nature of the app has been in the living with other projects that have been created by Mr. Dorsey in recent years, which has focused on zen-Ser-resistant technologies since he left.
A beta version of the app is available on Apple Test Flight for early users before a broader introduction. The app in the app test service has been full since the start on Monday, which means that 10,000 people already try it out.
