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Re:Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram by arminiusreturns on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:54AM (#24870101)
This reminded me of something I hadn't thought of in a long time. In the earlier days of bitcoin, there was a chat app that was using encrypted messages on the blockchain... I just spent ~5mins searching for it but can't remember the actual name. Is there anything else using the blockchain for chat?
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Re:Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram by dmantis on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:36AM (#24870585)
I think you talk about bitmessage. It doesn't use blockchain, though, which is kinda useless, there is no need to store messages permanently without the way to remove them.

These systems mostly use blockchain as PKI or similar to bitcoin mempools with public crypto, but not store messages on blockchain.

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Re:Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram by arminiusreturns on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:02PM (#24870907)
Ah yes, seems I was misremembering. Thanks for the info.
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Re:Egypt Blocks Access to Telegram by emptysongglass on Saturday October 24, 2020 @09:19AM (#24879020)
Could it have been Status? [1]

[1] https://status.im/private-messenger/

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