Testing Bitchat at the music festival
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·August 6, 2025mikeodds
I like the idea, I’ve been wandering around soma and mission for a week but not found anyone online
egypturnash
so is it
Bit Chat
or
Bitch At?
And is it somehow connected to bitcoin? This post mentions buying beer in exchange for "sats" so perhaps it is.
The entirely-in-lowercase page of the actual project does not clarify any of these questions. Not that they're more than idle curiosity given that the conclusion of this review is "it didn't work".
xorbax
Is a 'Bit' prefix now solely read as a bitcoin reference?
I thought it existed before bitcoin as, like, some computer thing or the platonic ideal of information. Did I get that wrong? Does 'bit' just mean bitcoin?
n12345679
lol it's just a LARP project marketed by jack and his conman buddy calle. It has nothing to do with Bitcoin. Briarproject dot org already exists and is better. These LARPers will likely use it to steal someone's bitcoins using it.
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flufluflufluffy
it’s fairly obviously bit chat, named most likely in homage to bitcoin, due to its decentralized nature, though there is no connection beyond that
specproc
Obligatory relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2055/
This has been tried so many times[0][1]… heck even I made an app like this once using WiFi direct.
The idea is so solid and yet there are just enough pitfalls between Bluetooth reliability, platform differences, getting critical mass for effective relaying…it’s such a bummer that we can’t figure this one out. Decentralized message relays have the potential to work anywhere, be fully private, extremely difficult to block/censor, and (in theory) can scale indefinitely.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat
[1]: https://briarproject.org/