THIS IS INSANE. 🤯
India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.
By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.
Here's what happened:
• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch
The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.
It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.
Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.
India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.
You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.
Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.
I am happy to report $DGB $DigiDollar activation has gone very well today! We have several DD mints now!
We have elevated orphan rate because we need to get more pools to add DD flag for blocktemplate. Help contact these pools to mine more DD blocks!
Guide: https://t.co/xaKNCv0HGl
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@lorenzonical Yes. I meant assuming the total network hashrate/ difficulty for permissionless mining remains same. (Difficulty rather increased post activation; it’ll come down eventually I agree)
@fractal_bitcoin Now that FIP-101 is activated succesfully, a permissionless miner mining solo with the same hash rate would be finding blocks significatly less frequently. Is my understanding correct?
@MrByteDGB@jaredctate He was wrong in saying that whoever is holding the DD can redeem the collateral. Whoever minted the DD can only redeem the locked DGB by acquiring that amount of DD from wherever he wants. So the minter only will receive the higher valued DGB not the DD holder.