2025-09-13
🇳🇵🗣️ Open-source wins! After being blocked from social media and facing a possible Internet blackout, Nepalis turned to @jack's Bitchat, with over 48k downloads in one day. I spoke with @callebtc (developer of the Android version) to understand this. My latest for @Forbes [image]
Forbes
Downloads of Jack Dorsey-backed Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat spiked to 48K+ in Nepal during recent protests, according to Bitchat developer “callebtc”
The Nepali government blocked access to 26 major social media platforms on September 4, including Facebook, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
2020-03-22
How does a colaboracionist become a kind of hero? I think that @GabrielJimenezM is just trying to wash his face, as many other people here in Venezuela, but he was full aware of what he was trying to achieve: money. Not freedom for the people, not fight the regime: money. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
A behind-the-scenes account on the creation of Petro, Venezuela's oil-backed cryptocurrency, whose author fled the country after becoming subject to persecution
a high-stakes cryptocurrency tale about an idealist who agreed to create a digital coin for the dictator of Venezuela. https://www.nytimes.com/... Nathaniel Popper / @nathanielpopp...