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I wish more people used Bitmessage. It makes communications encrypted, secret (with deniability) and it also has built-in spam minimization in the protocol itself. It also includes broadcast messages (like Twitter) and chan boards. It makes email look like an old technology.

https://bitmessage.org




It sounds like an exciting new system, and I hope it gains greater popularity, however there are a few reasons some may be hesitant right now:

- "Bitmessage should run on any OS though it is only lightly tested on OSX."

- "Bitmessage is in need of an independent audit to verify its security."


So it does everything that Email and Usenet can do?


Pretty much.

You can't distribute large files like in Usenet, though. Look into I2P + BitTorrent for that, or GnuNet.




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