Jack Dorsey’s new bet is a Bluetooth-based WhatsApp competitor

Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has announced bitchat, a new experimental peer-to-per messaging app that doesn’t require the internet or even an account to work. Here’s the idea behind it.

Protocols, not platforms

Ever since TechDirt‘s Mike Masnick released his 2019 paper “Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech,” Jack Dorsey seems to have truly taken it to heart.

That paper led Dorsey to launch the Bluesky project within Twitter…