What is this new Bitchat scam that crypto-bros think is good?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

My friend was telling me of this, thinking since its crypto related it must be really good. I said this has been around for many years and there are much better solutions than any that Jack is going to come up with to scam us. Have you guys heard of this?

I have to laugh at these tech-bros that actually know nothing, thinking they are great genius inventors. Reminds me of fElon.

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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s open source, so I don’t know what the scam is exactly…

It’s just a less than ideal piece of software that only runs on iOS, but I assume somebody will address that.

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- bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Im just skeptical of it, since similar solutions exist with briar, matrix, Irc, signal…sure theyre not all the same, but I fail to see how something a crypto scammer is trying to push could be good.
  
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  - just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I’m still not sure what you’re reftti. Jack Dorsey is one of the original Twitter guys, started Square…etc The only company he’s been involved in that deal with money is Square, so maybe I’m not sure where the “crypto scam” is?
    
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sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It just seems like dude is suffering from Not invented here and wants to reinvent the wheel. The only reason anyone noticed is because a tech b-lister is involved.

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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s fully Bluetooth, so it’s not exactly the same as the internet messaging apps
  
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