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June 17, 2013, 08:02:33 AM
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What is the usance of Bitmessage ?
It seems to me like Twitter. Doing the same what others already do just much worse.
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June 17, 2013, 08:03:57 AM
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yeah its a pain in the ass to use.

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June 17, 2013, 08:05:15 AM
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yeah its a pain in the ass to use.
How dare you. Tongue

To the thread starter, Bitmessage is a decentralized messaging service, that allows users to send messages to one another. It's nothing like Twitter, except for broadcasts, which are similar to notification emails.
It's awesome because it can never be wiretapped or shut down.
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June 17, 2013, 08:11:39 AM
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yeah its a pain in the ass to use.
How dare you. Tongue

To the thread starter, Bitmessage is a decentralized messaging service, that allows users to send messages to one another. It's nothing like Twitter, except for broadcasts, which are similar to notification emails.
It's awesome because it can never be wiretapped or shut down.
Thanks.
Torchat also cannot be wiretapped and can do anything what Bitmessage can but much faster and with less ressources.
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June 17, 2013, 08:12:34 AM
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What is the usance of Bitmessage ?
It seems to me like Twitter. Doing the same what others already do just much worse.

From what I understand, there's magic going on behind the scenes that makes it trustless, you don't inherently trust any entity like  service providers (twitter, gmail, facebook) root certificate authorities.

So in time there will be nicer front ends, but the essential protocol itself I believe holds some appeal.
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June 17, 2013, 08:15:10 AM
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What is the usance of Bitmessage ?
It seems to me like Twitter. Doing the same what others already do just much worse.

From what I understand, there's magic going on behind the scenes that makes it trustless, you don't inherently trust any entity like  service providers (twitter, gmail, facebook) root certificate authorities.

So in time there will be nicer front ends, but the essential protocol itself I believe holds some appeal.

exactly. as soon as it has more features and is more bad ass looking and k3wl, then i will probably download it again. for instance, if you could send a bitmessage from your cellphone, i'd be all over that shit.

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June 17, 2013, 08:15:57 AM
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why use it then
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June 17, 2013, 08:17:32 AM
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why use it then
Anonymity and privacy.
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June 17, 2013, 08:23:04 AM
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why use it then

I guess the primary end-users of bitmessage would be those that have a need for secure communications.
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June 17, 2013, 08:28:06 AM
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why use it then

to avoid the prying eyes of PRISM, and the Multi-billion dollar spying companies that monitor you tv, internet, cellphone, and all other functions of your daily life.

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June 17, 2013, 10:28:43 AM
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why use it then

I guess the primary end-users of bitmessage would be those that have a need for secure communications.

Privacy is privacy. You don't have to do things that are wrong to need it. It should be a given right. Just like with my vehicle... I have nothing illegal in there, but that doesn't mean I will let any police officer that asks go through my car. Will he find something? No. But the principle is that he's invading privacy by doing so.

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