🌐 Bridging Bitchat + MeshCore: Resilient communication when infrastructure fails
Bitchat = Bluetooth mesh on phones you already have (~100m range)
MeshCore = LoRa long-range mesh (km+ with cheap h...
> Your phone talks to the city-wide mesh network
No, my phone is talking to one specific LoRa device, and given the Bluetooth range on my phone, there's a 100% certainty that this LoRa device belongs to me. So instead of using the proven software from the MeshCore authors, I'm like an idiot using Bitchat and some kind of bridge in MeshCore, just so the world knows I'm a Jack Dorsey fanboy and so he can be sure that Bitchat isn't crap and is at least useful to someone. Okay.
No, my phone is talking to one specific LoRa device, and given the Bluetooth range on my phone, there's a 100% certainty that this LoRa device belongs to me. So instead of using the proven software from the MeshCore authors, I'm like an idiot using Bitchat and some kind of bridge in MeshCore, just so the world knows I'm a Jack Dorsey fanboy and so he can be sure that Bitchat isn't crap and is at least useful to someone. Okay.