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A caller Bitcoin-based encrypted chat level has been announced astatine the Adopting Bitcoin conference, BLIP.
The caller app, yet to beryllium publically released, leverages Hexum, a proprietary multilayer encryption method, besides created by the squad down BLIP, that promises a much unafraid connection than fashionable end-to-end (E2E) encrypted apps.
“WhatsApp and Signal usage 1 static backstage key. The Hexum encryption method gives you a backstage cardinal per connection oregon per interaction. So hacking that is precise difficult,” Alejandro Muyshondt, El Salvador nationalist information advisor and co-founder of BLIP founding institution High Voltage, told Bitcoin Magazine.
Hexum’s multilayer encryption attack leverages base64, AES, SHA256 and the summation of randomly generated words.
Muyshondt explained 2 different cardinal differences betwixt BLIP and the now-popular E2E apps setup: everything goes done Lightning and a telephone fig is not required.
A caller idiosyncratic tin commencement utilizing BLIP with an email code and a password. On BLIP’s end, Lightning nodes are leveraged and each caller idiosyncratic gets an code , on with a hash record that serves arsenic an relationship backup file.
“So [text] goes from your telephone with the Hexum encryption to the Lightning network, past to a Hexum decrypting method and past to your phone,” Muyshondt detailed.
Phase 1 of BLIP is text-only successful this “peer to Lightning to peer”-fashion. Phase 2 includes video calls and dependable messages, for which the transportation handshake happens connected Lightning and the remainder goes done the Tor network, leveraging BitTorrent technology.
Creators of BLIP explained that the thought down the task is not lone to supply antifragile means for unstoppable connection but besides service arsenic a driving unit of bitcoin adoption.
“We speech astir bitcoin adoption and for the astir portion radical speech astir the price, whether it’s a store of worth oregon a mean of exchange, but there’s not capable treatment astir the powerfulness of the web itself,” High Voltage co-founder Rick Fisher told Bitcoin Magazine. “We mightiness person two, 3 oregon 4 percent of the satellite that has adopted bitcoin, but determination is simply a overmuch larger bulk close present that tin get their arms astir protecting their speech, and the privateness of their speech.”
The request for state of code volition thrust a request for Bitcoin, helium continued. “And due to the fact that a idiosyncratic needs to powerfulness the app with sats, determination is an inherent request to instrumentality that measurement to spell and bargain a mates of dollars worthy of bitcoin. And, for 50 cents oregon a buck, you tin powerfulness up the BLIP app and person implicit encrypted communication.”
To encompass these usage cases, the squad down BLIP besides announced different applications astatine the conference, including BLIP Freedom and a Lightning wallet –– each of which besides leverage Hexum.
BLIP Freedom
BLIP Freedom is simply a bot-administered app that enables the instauration of movements with large-scale dissemination of information. Focused connected state of assembly, it protects the privateness of like-minded individuals who privation to freely pass successful the integer world.
“To get from the constituent of wherever we’re astatine contiguous to a bitcoin standard, there’s a immense chasm successful determination that is gonna necessitate that we tin congregate, assemble, make movements, make the revolution, and that's gonna hap done connection protocols,” Fisher said.
On BLIP Freedom, the organization’s lone task is to kickstart and unfastened a transmission to fto radical past articulation and crowdfund it. A idiosyncratic tin lone beryllium kicked retired of a transmission with a supermajority ballot (75%) from transmission users, a process administered by the bot.
“Assembly begins successful the integer domain,” Fisher said. “If you privation to commencement a movement, to make a revolution, it’s gonna commencement connected a phone. And if the overlords don’t similar it, they conscionable unopen it down. They did it successful Canada, they’ve done it successful Iran.”
“So, really, if you can’t signifier astatine that first-layer level and you tin beryllium deplatformed and it tin beryllium turned off, past it truly makes it hard to assemble and make a movement,” helium continued. “BLIP Freedom is truly a movement-oriented app wherever radical tin money it, you tin person donations and we tin create, for each imaginable oregon imaginable movement, a messaging level wherever we tin disseminate ample amounts of information to radical without it being unopen down.”
2Wallet
Hexsum and BLIP really stem from the improvement of 2Wallet, a custodial bitcoin and Lightning wallet aimed astatine banking the unbanked successful processing countries worldwide. Fisher told Bitcoin Magazine the thought was calved aft gathering Muyshondt astatine Adopting Bitcoin 2021, which intimately followed the adoption of bitcoin arsenic ineligible tender by El Salvador.
“We talked astir the challenges up for El Salvador and adopting bitcoin, and astatine that time, Chivo had conscionable been launched,” Fisher said, referring to the state-owned Chivo Wallet. “There wasn’t a batch of information, but we did cognize that adoption was going to beryllium tricky due to the fact that Chivo was rolled retired without Lightning. And truthful for merchant adoption, these things were going to beryllium beauteous difficult. The wallet itself was besides a beauteous large download.”
The 2 partners past had an thought to make a small-download wallet that was simple, accelerated and secure, Fisher recounted.
BLIP and 2Wallet volition beryllium made disposable for download wrong a fewer weeks, but a waitlist is already available.
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