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Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat


Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in an X post on Sunday night that he spent his weekend creating an app called Bitchat (presumably a

Because of Bluetooth’s technical limitations, this kind of app generally only works at a range of around 100 meters, making it useful for situations like finding friends at a busy music festival where cell service is spotty. One of the most popular Bluetooth messaging apps, Bridgefy, was notably used during pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, since its ability to function without the internet makes it harder for Chinese authorities to detect. But Dorsey’s newfound foray into developing Bitchat makes sense, given his long-term interests in decentralizing tech — he is a massive proponent of Bitcoin, and he originally founded the project that would become Bluesky while he was CEO of Twitter.

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