Topic: Student Aims to Boost Free Speech with Bitcoin Messaging App (Read 654 times)
Paying to send a message likely won't be very practical, though I think there's potential for a decentralized messenger or even a social networks.
Very similar and identical ideas have be rehashed by the retards of this forum for 3 years already.
A computer science student, Krzysztof Okupski, has developed a cheap and censorship-resistant messaging service built on top of the bitcoin blockchain.
http://www.coindesk.com/students-aims-boost-free-speech-bitcoin-messaging-app/
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Okupski hopes that his software might one day help dissidents worldwide to circumvent restrictions on freedom of speech.
He said:
"Binding a payments network like bitcoin together with an anti-censorship system forces any repressive government to either accept or abandon both. Abandoning it might not be very smart, however, since bitcoin is an active and growing currency that an economy could benefit from.”
He said:
"Binding a payments network like bitcoin together with an anti-censorship system forces any repressive government to either accept or abandon both. Abandoning it might not be very smart, however, since bitcoin is an active and growing currency that an economy could benefit from.”
Very nice project. Off course it won't get any massive popularity (due to some fees for sending messages), but the mere presence of such app will add value to bitcoin network.
It hasn't been released yet, but it should be available soon on the author's github page:
https://github.com/minium
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