CD184: CALLE - BITCHAT AND CASHU

Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the Cashu open source protocol. Cashu enables users to easily use bitcoin in a private, offline, and programmable way. Calle is also the maintainer of Bitchat android, a cross platform meshnet app that enables users to chat and send bitcoin without an internet connection. Calle on Nostr: https://primal.net/calle Calle on X: https://x.com/callebtc Bitchat: https://bitchat.free/ Cashu: https://cashu.space/ Hackathon: https://nutnovember.org/ AOS: https://andotherstuff.org/ EPISODE: 184 BLOCK: 925030 PRICE: 1126 sats per dollar (00:04:44) Bitchat: Bluetooth Mesh Without Internet (00:06:21) Protests and Outages Drive Downloads: Nepal, Indonesia, Madagascar, Côte d’Ivoire, Jamaica (00:09:51) Predicting Unrest from Download Spikes (00:14:27) Adding Nostr Transport: Hyperlocal Mesh vs. Geohash Chats (00:18:03) Geolocated Relay Selection (00:23:56) Ephemeral Identity, UX, and Censorship Considerations (00:28:37) Mesh Upgrades: Voice, Images, Files, Source Routing like Tor (00:30:23) WiFi Aware Mesh and Background Operation to Boost Range and Uptime (00:34:15) White Noise vs. Bitchat (00:40:00) Protocols and Transports: Weaving White Noise, Cashu,…