Bitmessage

Sh1tbag OToole · 2014-05-24 22:20:01

Any fellow Bitmessage enthousiasts here? I have been messing with it for the past few days, delivery time of messages seems to vary wildly, kind of like SMS in 1999. I quite like the idea of a messaging network without any centralised usurper of the throne wanting to sell your info and blast you with ads. For anyone who…

24-05-2014 10:20PM

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Sh1tbag OToole

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Any fellow Bitmessage enthousiasts here? I have been messing with it for the past few days, delivery time of messages seems to vary wildly, kind of like SMS in 1999. I quite like the idea of a messaging network without any centralised usurper of the throne wanting to sell your info and blast you with ads.

For anyone who hasn't heard about it - tis peer to peer messaging, everyone gets a huge long random address, messages get sent to everyone on the network but only you can decrypt. If not delivered, they die after 2 and a half days.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage

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#2 26-05-2014 11:17AM

Khannie

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Sounds great. I'll dig into it a bit now. (excuse the pun)

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#3 26-05-2014 01:23PM

Steviemoyne

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That looks excellent...and written in python. Might give me an excuse to learn some more python.

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