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Re:Jack Dorsey Releases BitChat: Encrypted Messaging via Blu... by rlt on Monday July 07, 2025 @02:58AM (#44487456)
The coolest thing about this is apparently it’s written by Jack Dorsey, billionaire founder of Twitter/Square. https://x.com/jack/status/1941989435962212728

Cool to see he still gets his hands dirty in code.

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Re:Jack Dorsey Releases BitChat: Encrypted Messaging via Blu... by nelsonfigueroa on Monday July 07, 2025 @03:50AM (#44487738)
Yeah I noticed this too! The profile picture looked familiar.
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Re:Jack Dorsey Releases BitChat: Encrypted Messaging via Blu... by b33f on Monday July 07, 2025 @05:47PM (#44495006)
It's not though, it's written by someone called nothankyou1 https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat/graphs/contributors
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Re:Jack Dorsey Releases BitChat: Encrypted Messaging via Blu... by greyface- on Monday July 07, 2025 @06:26PM (#44495241)
The commits, viewed outside of GitHub, have:

  Author: jack <[email protected]>
He used a bogus `user.email` git config value, which GitHub matched to the nothankyou1 account.
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