{"id":217415,"date":"2025-07-09T02:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/jack-dorsey-launches-a-whatsapp-messaging-rival-built-on-bluetooth"},"modified":"2025-07-09T02:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:02:33","slug":"jack-dorsey-launches-a-whatsapp-messaging-rival-built-on-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/jack-dorsey-launches-a-whatsapp-messaging-rival-built-on-bluetooth","title":{"rendered":"Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jack-dorsey-launches-a-whatsapp-messaging-rival-built-on-bluetooth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CEO Jack Dorsey spent the weekend building Bitchat, a new decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks, with no internet, central servers, phone numbers or emails required.<\/p>\n<p>The Twitter co-founder announced Sunday that the beta version is live on TestFlight, with a full white paper available on GitHub.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Block CEO Jack Dorsey has launched Bitchat, a new peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Jack Dorsey spent the weekend building Bitchat, a new decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks, with no internet, central servers, phone numbers or emails required. The Twitter co-founder announced Sunday that the beta version is live on TestFlight, with a full white paper available on GitHub. Block CEO Jack [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}