{"id":689412,"date":"2025-09-11T06:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nepalis-rush-to-jack-dorseys-bitchat-amid-violent-corruption-protests\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:40:28","slug":"nepalis-rush-to-jack-dorseys-bitchat-amid-violent-corruption-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nepalis-rush-to-jack-dorseys-bitchat-amid-violent-corruption-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepalis rush to Jack Dorsey\u2019s bitchat amid violent corruption protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thousands of Nepalis turned to Jack Dorsey\u2019s Bluetooth mesh network messaging app<\/a> in response to the government\u2019s social media<\/a> ban, which has since been lifted.<\/p>\n

Over 48,000 Nepalese people downloaded Block CEO Jack Dorsey\u2019s peer-to-peer messaging app, bitchat, amid a series<\/a> of violent protests over corruption and a short-lived social media ban earlier this week.<\/p>\n

It followed a similar uptick in downloads in Indonesia last week after corruption-related protests erupted, according<\/a> to Bitcoin open-source developer \u201ccallebtc,\u201d who is working on bitchat.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week, we observed a sudden spike in bitchat downloads from Indonesia during nationwide protests. Today we\u2019re seeing an even bigger spike from Nepal during youth protests over government corruption and a social media ban,\u201d callebtc posted<\/a> to X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Thousands of Nepalis turned to Jack Dorsey\u2019s Bluetooth mesh network messaging app in response to the government\u2019s social media ban, which has since been lifted. Over 48,000 Nepalese people downloaded Block CEO Jack Dorsey\u2019s peer-to-peer messaging app, bitchat, amid a series of violent protests over corruption and a short-lived social media ban earlier this week….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-09\/019935b1-83c6-7ce7-ab46-a79b3d2ab95d","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90958,122306,74355,32128,4974,71511,33423,73952,73688,70934,4976,72047],"class_list":["post-689412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-messaging-app","tag-meta","tag-adoption","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-government","tag-instagram","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-nepal","tag-regulation","tag-social-media","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}