This is a CIA tool Bitchat has the exact architectural characteristics of a modern intelligence tool. 🚨. A billionaire who uses his resources to build this but then ask yourself why would he make it completely free and open-source and NOT Monetize it ? Because the value is in the data he’s collecting . It ensures maximum adoption among protest movements and dissidents globally.🚨🚨 The CIA has a history of creating secure communication apps for dissidents. Remember "Signal"? It was developed by Open Whisper Systems, which received funding from the US government (via the Open Technology Fund, which is linked to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a US agency).🚨🚨 The US government has a vested interest in providing dissidents in countries like Iran, China, and Russia with tools to organize and communicate securely to undermine those governments.🚨🚨 Even if Bitchat evades internet surveillance, it creates a physical mesh network of Bluetooth devices. 🚨🚨 Intelligence agencies can deploy "Bluetooth sniffers" in protest areas to map the mesh network, track devices, and identify clusters of protesters. 🚨 you are literally broadcasting your location and connections via radio frequency (Bluetooth), which is much easier to track locally than internet traffic. 🚨 The app LOOKS like its against remote internet surveillance, but it makes users highly visible to local physical surveillance (Bluetooth tracking). If you are a state intelligence agency (like the CIA or NSA), and you want to identify dissidents in a specific city, you want them to use an app that creates a detectable Bluetooth mesh network. You can then drive around with a receiver and map the network.🚨 Bitchat claims "no central servers." But it uses Nostr for global reach. Nostr relies on relays, which are servers. If the CIA or NSA runs Nostr relays (which they easily can, as they run Tor nodes), they can collect metadata and messages that are routed through those relays. 🚨 So while it's decentralized, it's not serverless. It just uses volunteer-run relays, which intelligence agencies can🚨🚨 and do operate. It's a honeypot for dissidents. You give them a way to communicate that bypasses the internet, but you track them via the radio frequency emissions of their phones. This is the same pattern as Tor. The US Navy created Tor to protect intelligence communications, but it also became a way to track dissidents who use it, because the exit nodes are largely controlled by intelligence agencies. Internet surveillance is hard for the NSA when end-to-end encryption is used. They have to break the encryption or compromise the endpoints. But if you convince dissidents to use Bluetooth mesh networks, they are broadcasting their presence and their connections continuously via radio frequency. The NSA/CIA can deploy mobile Bluetooth sniffers (drones, vehicles, even aircraft) to map the mesh network in real-time. They don't need to read the encrypted messages. They just need to see which devices are talking to which other devices. The metadata (who is connected to whom) is transmitted in the clear (Bluetooth advertising packets).