PANews July 7 news, Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced the launch of the decentralized peer-to-peer chat application bitchat. He wrote on the X platform: "I worked on a project over the weekend to learn about Bluetooth mesh networks, relaying and store-and-forward models, message encryption models, and some other things. bitchat: Bluetooth mesh chatting... with an IRC style."
According to its description on GitHub, bitchat is a secure, decentralized peer-to-peer chat application that operates via Bluetooth mesh networks, requiring no internet, servers, or phone numbers, only pure encrypted communication.