Built On Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, BLIP Wants To Make Your Chats Unstoppablebitcoinmagazine.com/business/blip-encrypted-chat-on-bitcoin-lightning
364 sats \ 8 comments \ @029b92a10f 16 Nov 2022 bitcoin
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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @BuiltOnBitcoin 16 Nov 2022
Saw this annoucement. Looks interesting. Though I cant help but shake the feeling TOR and other encryption options are naturally better then Bitcoin layers for chat?
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 16 Nov 2022
Muyshondt explained two other key differences between BLIP and the now-popular E2E apps setup: everything goes through Lightning and a phone number is not required.
Is this another fork of Sphinx?
A new user can start using BLIP with an email address and a password. On BLIP’s end, Lightning nodes are leveraged and each new user gets an address , along with a hash file that serves as an account backup file.
I don't know what address means here. It sounds like they centrally host nodes for users that send messages between each other. Or maybe not.
“So [text] goes from your phone with the Hexum encryption to the Lightning network, then to a Hexum decrypting method and then to your phone,” Muyshondt detailed.
Why is it decrypting before it reaches your phone?
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220 sats \ 1 reply \ @thrown 16 Nov 2022
My first thought was Sphinx. Sounds exactly like it.
I still lament the lack of information on what us going on with that app. Idk why they stopped selling nodes and stuff. Their blogs were really positive about their vision of future development
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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @0330830bf9 16 Nov 2022
It was a dumb enough idea that VC's poured money onto it, that was likely it's only mission given it's asinine architecture.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @0330830bf9 16 Nov 2022
Hard to tell when a project is an affinity scam or just has idiots behind it, this seems to check boxes for both.
  • Press Release before code
  • Email harvesting
  • "Proprietary" Encryption
  • Claims to use Lightning data
Lightning is for payments, not your stupid apps people.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @thrown 16 Nov 2022
Lightning is for payments, not your stupid apps people.
to be fair, if you need to rely on good will in order to protect a protocol, there is something wrong with the protocol itself
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @0330830bf9 16 Nov 2022
Who said anything about protecting the protocol?
Nodes relaying this bullshit will effectively be exiled from the nucleus of well managed nodes on the network.
It simply just means not-payment Lightning Apps are stupid and won't work. (Sphinx)
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @rijndael 17 Nov 2022
Ugh. People need to stop trying to cram application traffic into lightning. Use lightning for PAYMENTS. use other, better suited protocols for your application data. You’ll get lower latency, higher bandwidth, and you won’t spam the network. You can still add payments to your application! Just add bolt11 invoices to your protocol. Done.
Seriously, just dont.
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