Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth Messaging App Is Now On The App Store

Earlier this month, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey unveiled a peer-to-peer, Bluetooth-based messaging app he put together. Now, anyone pinch a compatible iPhone, Mac aliases iPad (or moreover Apple Vision Pro) tin effort Bitchat arsenic it's available connected nan App Store.

Dorsey created Bitchat nether nan auspices of "and Other Stuff," an open-source improvement corporate he has backed financially. Per nan free app's description, it allows users to chat pinch others who are physically adjacent to them without needing to person their email reside aliases telephone number, which could make Bitchat useful for in-person events. Messages are backstage and encrypted, while nan Panic Mode usability allows you to delete each your Bitchat information pinch a triple tap.

Dorsey said he built Bitchat arsenic an research successful "Bluetooth mesh networks, relays and shop and guardant models, connection encryption models and a fewer different things." The app doesn't request net entree to function, making it a useful action successful situations successful which authorities artifact mobile information and Wi-Fi connectivity. Other apps that connection Bluetooth mesh messaging first started appearing over a decade ago.

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