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Re:Jack Dorsey Releases BitChat: Encrypted Messaging via Blu... by wickedsight on Monday July 07, 2025 @01:26AM (#44487038)
On festival sites and other crowded events, cellular sometimes gets quite saturated and slow. This might be a good alternative.

Also, I could see it as a useful tool in emergency situations. But a lot of people would need to use it to be actually useful.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Releases BitChat: Encrypted Messaging via Blu... by master-lincoln on Monday July 07, 2025 @06:16AM (#44488662)
When I last had a university workshop where 20 people in a room worked on a bluetooth protocol I also noticed bluetooth is quickly saturated with many participants. Hopefully that changed in the last 15 years since...
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