Nepal protests drive spike in Bitchat downloads
Jack Dorsey’s peer-to-peer decentralised messaging service Bitchat saw a significant spike in downloads from users in Nepal during this week’s social media crackdown. That’s according to Cashu founder and X user @callebtc, who noted that the uptick in downloads was even larger than a previous spike from Indonesia that saw 12,000 daily downloads during another series of protests. The open-source dev, who is currently working on Bitchat, touted the messaging service’s ease of access, claiming it “works everywhere” with no phone number, email, account registration, or even internet. there when you need it https://t.co/gbTxEPgEjP — jack (@jack) September 10, 2025 Read more: Jack Dorsey and Block abandon Web5 to mine bitcoin It does this by allowing users to send each other messages in a local area using Bluetooth over “mesh networks,” with the devices solely acting as “ client and server .” As a result, it claims to provide “censorship r...