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New Delhi: Co-founder and former CEO of Twitter now X Jack Dorsey has done what many across the social media platforms must have been wishing for. He has launched Bitchat a peer-to-peer messaging app that does not require internet connectivity to send and receive messages like WhatsApp and Telegram which require an active internet connection. Instead Bitchat uses Bluetooth to send and receive messages. What is Bitchat? Bitchat can broadly be defined as a peer-to-peer messaging app that does not require internet connectivity to send and receive messages like other social media platforms WhatsApp and Telegram which require an active internet connection. Instead Bitchat uses Bluetooth to send and receive messages. It also does not need phone numbers or servers. Right now it is in beta via TestFlight with a technical white paper up on GitHub. What did Dorsey say about Bitchat? Jack Dorsey shared the details of Bitchat in a white paper in a post on X: “my weekend project to learn about bluetooth mesh networks relays and store and forward models message encryption models and a few other things. bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat...IRC vibes. TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QwkyFq6z GitHub: https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat.” What does Bitchat offer? The website bitchat.live describes the services as: BITCHAT is a Web3 Social Networking Platform. With our new feature users can GENERATE posts photos & many more. In more elaborate way Bitchat allows the users the much-desired privacy as the entire communication is off-grid. Messages are encrypted brief and jump between nearby devices via Bluetooth. As people move messages can relay across overlapping Bluetooth clusters creating a living breathing mesh network with no need for a central authority. Although some devices can act as ‘bridges’ to extend the network’s range. What are the features of Bitchat? Bitchat transmits messages even if you are not online and it has the facility of password secured group chat called Rooms. Apart from this it supports a technology called store and forward so that even if a user is offline he can get the message later. It has been told that WiFi Direct feature will also be added in the upcoming updates which will further improve the speed and range of the app. While messaging apps like Metas WhatsApp and Messenger use the personal data of users Bitchat works completely peer-to-peer i.e. from device to device. In this neither any account has to be created nor any identity like number or email is given nor any data is collected.