my weekend project to learn more about bluetooth mesh networks, relays, store and forward models, encryption models, and a few other things: https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat
nostr-only TestFlight if you want to play with it: https://testflight.apple.com/join/QwkyFq6z
very cool!
this is amazing
Nice
This combined with nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p 's vibe-coded party apps would be great for events. Think of all the ice-breakers you could throw up.
Some screenshots for the blind?
😂😂
TestFlight...don't think they share email though? that would be dumb.
Only if you submit crashes and feedback IIRC
Still, important project!
That’s a weird assumption.
The reality is that they could if they want because of the TOS.
TestFlight doesn’t share the email for users that sign up with the public link. Only if testers are invited via their email https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/test-a-beta-version/invite-external-testers
sharing email downloads with the public? 🫡
sharing email with your stupid husband like my mom does? 😡
Nice catch nostr:nprofile1qqswfxzsgchm4648r30d5uy9vmv0up00y4q4ldv2a8ssqjkqx355dncpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgr53vv3
Already had TestFlight on my phone because of a failed try using Apple’s ecosystem before with building an privacy and decentralized native app.
Will delete it because of the TOS.
Bit sketchy.
sweet! gm
Downloading it
In #Cuba, this is how the dictatorship is defeated, but the opposition isn't interested in solutions that aren't proposed by them
#grownostr #freedom
nostr:nevent1qqsp7gcsyfru9wzyhrzmwef94z3hlkazgkswf6z0hhr98m68y3kwfng363x55
I think nostr:nprofile1qqsgfhhxuemwtwm8kjk5uppv7uxtmp5pz4wm2dv59lxx5pfnsk98ysqpzamhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsan432w made it very clear a long time ago that Apple does not comply with privacy laws. Whatsoever..
Why build privacy native apps and release it for Apple products? nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0ds8py5ck
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My weekend project consisted of fixing some IT bugs in my brother’s company including introducing him to a couple of AI workflows.
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Just in time for Uranus’ ingress into Gemini and the start of the revolution.
Sent a “test from Tampa”
Didn't know that Bluetooth can be used as a mesh network, super low distance for stable connection or ?
We use Bluetooth intercoms using a dynamic mesh network on our helmets for snowmobiling.
They’re usually good for around 1km or so before they cut out through open fields. In the dense forest it will be less.
Once a rider catches back up to being within range, it automatically reconnects.
I was thinking this same thing. Seems to me that radio > bluetooth
Agreed. We need to promote more MURS and CB adoption. Both can be used without a license, MURS even allows you to connect digital devices to transmit and receive data.
Bitchat is also interesting though
But Bluetooth is SOOOO slow..
They've already begun doing it for our bodies. Jabbed and swabbed people are now emitting 1-4 unique bluetooth MAC-IDs. You can test it yourself with your modile device.
YES finally someone posting worthwhile shit here thank you
Was should sync and make it happen https://github.com/KoalaSat/samiz
How compatible?!?!
Yes, but as I see this works as an isolated client.
Not impossible, but the idea of nostr:nprofile1qqszfrv3m6acxyqy4ghuega2n74rntkrfg9sp4pmse94vul56gnul8cppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0aljpdg is to take care only of the data transmission layer and let the uset to use its own nostr client/relay.
Waiting for a dev to spin up an Android client
thank you 🧡
You are a CEO and still have a weekend project to learn more… truly inspiring
fuck it's so perfect for introverts!!
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This is great! Ever heard of LoRa radio and/or meshtastic? Bitchat's protocol looks vastly superior, especially because of cache/announce/tx by design - really cool.
Unfortunately meshtastic is too tied to mqtt but even still, there are huge meshes running worldwide. Would be cool to have this working over LoRa just for the kicks
i have, but i'm not sure yet how to implement LoRa.
are you serious?
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/what-is-lorawan/
Hacking bits and pieces from meshtastic's firmware is most probably the fastest way.
Meshtastic is currently using cheap esp32 which act as interface between end device and the LoRa radios. The meshtastic app uses the radio via the esp32's bluetooth or wifi. Serial over usb also works. Some people use card radios like the t1000 magsafe'd to their phones, which is cool. I am sure these things will become smaller and smaller in the coming years.
If the transport layer for bitchat becomes fully agnostic, this can be easily prototyped. Logically, making this work over LoRa, which has a very low bitrate and hourly frequency utilization limits, would pose some interesting challenges.
Let me know if you find this interesting, I'll gladly help hacking the firmware and testing it with the radios
Loran
Sadly not super practical for sender use given lack of market penetration compared to a phone, but I’ve used these before for some long-range projects. https://unsigned.io/hardware/RNode.html
You could simply use #Sideband on your phone. #reticulum is not restricted to LoRa although designed also to work with it. If there would be a Bluetooth interface for reticulum you were able to communicate just with your phone and Sideband. https://github.com/markqvist/Sideband
:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX8GFn5uCI #cashu #reticulum #mesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_yHu9rJt58 #lora #ble
Burning Man as an examples uses LoRa Meshtastic networks...though Reticulum may hold greater promise/alignment
It says I’m all alone 😔
Just need to unlock that cell band chipset for serious gainz
Wow! Thank you Jack! Testing it! ♥️
Working 20m distance
great!
Sounds like a trash weekend
Good for Burning Man and finding friends in the desert?
It’s so psychotic and delusional when I have my own family to try and terrorize me and them when they’re around. I want nothing to do with anyone in his family they’re fucking delusional nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
I like it. This reminds me of a digital walkie talkie. Using a walkie talkie is how I learned Morse Code. Why the “bit”? Are we sending Bitcoin p2p within the app without wifi? If it happens in a straight forward way and can be spent immediately, then I’ll be super impressed. Let’s go, it’s about time.
With QR codes being difficult to scan outdoors and NFC tightly controlled, BLE and ultrasonic (or just sonic!) transmission are promising ways to improve Bitcoin UX
Very cool.
Title:
Let a nostr client act as a personal relay to inject its timeline into the local mesh chat group.
As a
nostr user connected to a Bluetooth mesh network,
I want to
use my own private key to log in and push my home timeline (e.g., from Damus or any nostr client) into the local mesh chat group,
So that
I can share my worldview and feed with nearby users, without overloading the mesh with a full relay architecture.
we should allow each user to act as a selective source, pushing their own curated timeline (their view of the world) into the local mesh group. This aligns with the idea of decentralized, personal storytelling — each node tells its own story, rather than rebroadcasting the entire network.
perfect for those on a houseboat at sea :)
Mesh networks are the proper way forward;
Dynamic, free-flowing, decentralized webs of communication.
This is how we build better lives.
Thanks nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n, #nostr, and #bitcoin.
FireChat 2.1?
Wow, you are a smart white hacker.
I don't make sense everything yet, but you mean it will be able to keep chatting with Bluetooth if my Wifi ruter is suspended? Furthermore, nobody can't chasing our chat history on the Bluetooth network?
Do you perhaps think stable network is not good for privacy? Maybe anonymous network points will increase in future.
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Great you are working on a fully resilient, redundant, & truly censorship-resistant information- & communication system rooted in Bitcoin, but tragically most Bitcoiners - including yourself - have been miracleously ignoring the fact that Earth's magnetic field has been weakening at least 5% per decades and that another "Carrington" event (1850 approx.) will have catastrophic effects (= destruction of ALL information - & grid- & communication systems for a very very very long time). Due to the extremely weakened magnetic field of Earth, planet Earth & humanity in tolalitity are exponentially more vulnerable.
By the way, that just the first phase within the next years to come...I am not even talking about the overdue magnetic pole shift between 2030-2050,...if we are lucky.
Got a linux desktop version?
no, but code is public domain.
There is Bitcoiners using bluetooth on their phones? wow.
I tried it with my team during a concert with 6,000 people at the Circus Maximus in Rome, where usually there’s no phone signal, and it worked perfectly!!!
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This should be advertised at every festival entrance
잭돌싀가 재밌는걸 만들어 놨네요!
- 블루투스 메쉬망 P2P 메세징앱
(향후) Nostr를 지원하게 되면 평소에도 충분히 사용할 수 있을듯?!
(희박) 아이폰에는 바로 설치가 됩니다! 어쩌다 신호 잡히면 너무 반가울듯
This would be great to test at the next nostr gathering
I think u should change the name
nah
I like the name but I have Venus in Scorpio so bitching at people I don’t like, which is most people, is fitting.
. 
A Bitching BitchX style iRC client called BitchAt. Nice
Can we get a /nick or /n username command? :D
Check out my open source TimeSeed.io it's decentralized encryption for msg and files, all time based.
I HAVE NOT RECEIVED nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgstw3r3l s ZAP SINCE I AM ON #NOSTR WILL THIS NOTE RECEIVE ONE
Sadly the beta is full, but this looks promising 🔥
#nostr #privacy #bluetooth #mesh
You can just build things in a weekend
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How this overtakes Open Garden’s BT mesh assuming in same category/use
Love the Unlicense
Ahhh the TestFlight is already full.
LoRa's long range but low bandwidth already enables telemetry messages from as far as orbiting satellites with $20 hardware (https://tinygs.com/).
For motivated, low time preference users, such as Nostriches, I think there must be a way to hyper-efficiently encode/decode longer text messages using local language models, trading work at sender and receiver for better transmission efficiency, mitigating bandwidth constraints and enabling far wider mesh coverage.
Whether or not it can be made to work, I'm finding it interesting to explore https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdpgmuuxq7wl3w8nmjlj75h7tpjm6t65ce7g5jfsdkwx603a6y6ccpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygx3tkfhf0ccqg99hjd5s6dkqu6ytlw88r65qu397q0sf96q9chxcgpsgqqqqqqs5pjyw6
Un-full the beta!
Fantastic
Testing from #ElSalvador, if I show up anywhere, say hello...
The bluetooth interface for #reticulum has still to be written. Would be a much more versatile approach.
Dude you gotta come to #SovEng
A person who does what needs to be done, the world needs people like that
Got an apk for Android Jack?
Aaaaand.... the beta is full
Can I get the invite code jack??
i think it’s (unfortunately) really cool that despite it all, jack is still a lame ass dork from st. louis, who codes nerd things, for other nerds.
beautiful work lil dude, but can you please just get kungfukenny on nostr finally?
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IOS tho
This is great. Also check out Meshtastic. I have been playing around with it for a few weeks with cheap LoRa devices. Here in NC, most of the state is covered!
🤦♂️ @jack co-founded a decentralized network called “Damus” 😂🤷♂️
would be cool if this used nostr-sdk and negentropy synced to other nodes when they uplink to each other. then it could have the option to wide-area broadcast the notes so that it can be stored and forwarded from relays as a fallback
👆this!
yes
I got most of the way there with goose, but does it really fit the anonymous, ephemeral philosophy?
This sounds interesting! Unfortunately, I’m late for the party. TestFlight is already full
I've ported bitchat to Android and it's interoperable with the iOS app by nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n
github repo: https://github.com/callebtc/bitchat-android
apk release: https://github.com/callebtc/bitchat-android/releases/tag/0.1
it's still a bit rough around the edges and there are a few bugs. issues and PRs welcome
wen nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgzqtdq0
Multi-star topology. Not mesh.
Is there going to be more slots for the TestFlight since it’s full?
full again.
would look sick with my SovranMono font.. ..patched with Nerd Font icons.. (SIL Open Font License)
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testflight limit reached. could you rise it a little more for me ? 🤙
Is this a goose vibe run ? https://deepwiki.com/jackjackbits/bitchat
If you’re within Bluetooth range, just talk to me dawg😂
Missed it. What’s the best way to try and get in the next wave?
No friends 😕
Cool stuff nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpxdmhxue69uhkuamr9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshkz7tkdfkx26tvd4urqctvxa4ryur3wsergut9vsch5dmp8pese6nj96
it's so fucking beautiful and brilliant and... Bitcoin! OMG!
thank you!
testflight full :(
testflight limit reached ⚡️
awesome, has relay length been documented yet?
support for broader network would be neat, e.g setting up small IoTs with bluetooth antenna that would simply be broadband relay stations; though at that point regulations probably similar to mesh networks and radio bands kick in, not sure.
