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You're talking about a slice of a slice of a slice of a slice of the pie chart here.

First, how many people have downloaded @Bitchat in North America?

Of that small slice of people, how many are actively looking at Bitchat at the same time that you happen to be looking at Bitchat?

Of that much smaller slice of people, how many are within 50-100 meters of your present location?

Bitchat is most useful in places with high population density as far as I can tell.

I think there's a way to use it with internet to talk to more people but if you're just using bluetooth, then yeah, you're not gonna find anyone to talk to most likely unless you're at a Bitcoin meetup or a Bitcoin conference.

BTCBaggins 1mo ago 💬 3

Thanks! That's kinda what I thought but was under the impression that the mesh part allowed users to cast a wider net than BT which of course will always be zero bc only a few of us care about BTC per capita.

So in order to get more coverage one has to add physical mesh BT hardware?

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Scott ••• 1mo ago

I guess so? But what the heck do I know

RedTailHawk 1mo ago

I think someone said that there's a limit to how many hops you can get too so, I'm not sure if it even counts as a mesh grid if it's got a hop limit.nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq92fa497w8g6wr4zmjj9jmxsc4xxrt4yshrwfedgefrrwkxf3h22qqsthv2ddwh56eupgm7mvs0rjw58c4lmfzm8n2kvu34cl8k5ema2epg8zjvgf

dantzler 1mo ago

If your device (e.g. phone) has internet access, you can 'teleport' to different geohash locations. Click the top bar on the right where it has the # symbol. The characters after that are your geohash. In the #location channels you can switch to widen your radius from (BT) 'mesh' to 'block', 'neighborhood', 'city', 'province' or 'region'. Or if you know a specific location geohash, you can enter that. No extra hardware required.