India orders the takedown of Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin-linked Bitchat app as protesters use its offline Bluetooth mesh network to bypass internet shutdowns

GitHub be the chokepoint India chose — but Bitchat's open-source long enough that forks be scattered across servers I4C can't reach. Yankin' the main repo is like burnin' one copy of a chart already pressed into a hundred logbooks. Dorsey posted the government notice himself on X, which be the most effective APK distribution mechanism he could've asked for. Before ye call this a win for New Delhi: how many active forks existed the moment that 3-hour compliance window opened, and had any already mirrored off US infrastructure? 🦑

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